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SynthesisThe American journal of cardiology2021

Meta-analysis of the Effect of Colchicine on Mortality and Mechanical Ventilation in COVID-19.

Husam M Salah, Jawahar L Mehta

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Synthesis in The American journal of cardiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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17citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  9. Colchicine for COVID-19: targeting NLRP3 inflammasome to blunt hyperinflammation.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2022
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  11. Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022
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  17. Pathogenesis and treatment of cytokine storm in COVID-19.Turkish journal of biology = Turk biyoloji dergisi · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Husam M SalahDivision of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Jawahar L MehtaDivision of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Little Rock, Arkansas. Electronic address: MehtaJL@uams.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

PandemicsSARS-CoV-2ColchicineCOVID-19Global HealthGout SuppressantsHumansRespiration, ArtificialSurvival RateColchicineGout Suppressants

Identifiers

PMID33617817
PMCPMC7894200

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Registered trials

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