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ArticleDiabetes & metabolic syndrome

Letter to the editor in response to the article: "Vitamin D concentrations and COVID-19 infection in UK biobank" (Hastie et al.).

Gareth Davies, Richard B Mazess, Linda L Benskin

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Article in Diabetes & metabolic syndrome. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Pooled it
  3. Review
  4. COVID-19 Epidemic Forecast in Brazil.Bioinformatics and biology insights · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Gareth DaviesImperial College (alumnus), London, UK. Electronic address: gareth@sencillo.co.uk.
Richard B MazessEmeritus Professor of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.
Linda L BenskinIndependent Researcher and Ferris Mfg. Corp. (Makers of PolyMem Dressings), Austin, TX, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19Vitamin DBiological Specimen BanksHumansSARS-CoV-2United KingdomVitamin D

Identifiers

PMID33722481
PMCPMC7871807

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Registered trials

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