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SynthesisFrontiers in cardiovascular medicine2021

Prevalence of Atrial Fibrillation and Associated Mortality Among Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Zuwei Li, Wen Shao, Jing Zhang, Jianyong Ma, Shanshan Huang, Peng Yu, Wengen Zhu, Xiao Liu

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Synthesis in Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
39citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

39 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Atrial fibrillation and flutter in the Eastern Mediterranean: burden, disparities, and risk factor contributions from 1990 to 2021.The Egyptian heart journal : (EHJ) : official bulletin of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology · 2025
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  10. Cardiac arrhythmia in COVID-19 patients.Annals of noninvasive electrocardiology : the official journal of the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology, Inc · 2024
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  16. Cardiac arrhythmias in viral infections.Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing · 2023
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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

8 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Zuwei LiCardiology Department, The Affiliated Hospital of Jiangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, China.
Wen ShaoEndocrine Department, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China.
Jing ZhangAnesthesiology Department, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China.
Jianyong MaDepartment of Pharmacology and Systems Physiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States.
Shanshan HuangEndocrine Department, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China.
Peng YuEndocrine Department, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China.
Wengen ZhuDepartment of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Xiao LiuCardiology Department, The Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University · CNAffiliated Hospital of Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNSun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital · CNSun Yat-sen University · CNUniversity of Cincinnati Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

atrial fibrillationCOVID-19deathmeta-analysisprevalence

Identifiers

PMID34722658
PMCPMC8548384
OpenAlexW3206204277

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