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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2021

Higher Prevalence of Non-thyroidal-Illness Syndrome in Elderly Male Patients With Active

Banruo Sun, Xuanping Wang, Michael Edmund David McLarnon, Yu Ding, Miao Liu, Wei Dai, Gangshi Wang

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Banruo SunDepartment of Endocrinology, Second Medical Center, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Beijing, China.
Xuanping WangSchool of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom.
Michael Edmund David McLarnonSchool of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom.
Yu DingDepartment of Gastroenterology, Second Medical Center, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Beijing, China.
Miao LiuDepartment of Statistics and Epidemiology, Graduate School of Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, China.
Wei DaiOffice of Information Management, Second Medical Center, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, China.
Gangshi WangDepartment of Gastroenterology, Second Medical Center, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Beijing, China.
Chinese PLA General Hospital · CNChinese People's Liberation Army · CNQueen's University Belfast · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

elderlyHelicobacter pylorimalenon-thyroidal-illness syndromethyroid functionthyroid morphology

Identifiers

PMID34307412
PMCPMC8295606
OpenAlexW3179728471

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Registered trials

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