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ArticleAnnals of medicine2021

The effect of BMI on COVID-19 outcomes among older patients in South Korea: a nationwide retrospective cohort study.

Yongtak Cho, Yongil Cho, Hyuk Joong Choi, Heekyung Lee, Tae Ho Lim, Hyunggoo Kang, Byuk Sung Ko, Jaehoon Oh

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Article in Annals of medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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10citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 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

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yongtak ChoDepartment of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Yongil ChoDepartment of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Hyuk Joong ChoiDepartment of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Heekyung LeeDepartment of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Tae Ho LimDepartment of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Hyunggoo KangDepartment of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Byuk Sung KoDepartment of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Jaehoon OhDepartment of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Hanyang University · KRYonsei University · KR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Body Mass IndexAgedAged, 80 and overCOVID-19FemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedOverweightPandemicsRepublic of KoreaRetrospective StudiesRisk FactorsSARS-CoV-2Severity of Illness IndexThinnessbody mass indexCOVID-19older patientunderweight

Identifiers

PMID34382503
PMCPMC8366651
OpenAlexW3189567251

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