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SynthesisGastroenterology2021

Lack of Consistent Associations Between Pharmacologic Gastric Acid Suppression and Adverse Outcomes in Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019: Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies.

Faisal Kamal, Muhammad Ali Khan, Sachit Sharma, Zaid Imam, Colin W Howden

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Synthesis in Gastroenterology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Proton Pump Inhibitor Use Is Not Strongly Associated With SARS-CoV-2 Related Outcomes: A Nationwide Study and Meta-analysis.Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Faisal KamalDivision of Gastroenterology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee. Electronic address: fkamal36@gmail.com.
Muhammad Ali KhanDivision of Gastroenterology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
Sachit SharmaDepartment of Medicine, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio.
Zaid ImamDivision of Gastroenterology, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan.
Colin W HowdenDivision of Gastroenterology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19FamotidineGastrointestinal DiseasesHumansObservational Studies as TopicProton Pump InhibitorsTreatment OutcomeFamotidineProton Pump Inhibitors

Identifiers

PMID33609504
PMCPMC7888995

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