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ArticleInternational journal of public health2021

Loneliness Among Older Adults in Latin America, China, and India: Prevalence, Correlates and Association With Mortality.

Qian Gao, A Matthew Prina, Martin Prince, Daisy Acosta, Ana Luisa Sosa, Mariella Guerra, Yueqin Huang, Ivonne Z Jimenez-Velazquez, Juan J Llibre Rodriguez, Aquiles Salas and 4 more

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Article in International journal of public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 6 of them syntheses that 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

30 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Qian GaoHealth Service and Population Research, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
A Matthew PrinaHealth Service and Population Research, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Martin PrinceHealth Service and Population Research, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Daisy AcostaGeriatric Section, Internal Medicine Department, Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Ureña, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Ana Luisa SosaNational Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery of Mexico, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
Mariella GuerraInstituto de la Memoria Depresion y Enfermedades de Riesgo, Lima, Peru.
Yueqin HuangSocial Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Institute of Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Ivonne Z Jimenez-VelazquezGeriatrics Program, Internal Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Juan J Llibre RodriguezFacultad de Medicina Finlay-Albarran, Medical University of Havana, Havana, Cuba.
Aquiles SalasMedicine Department, Caracas University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela.
Joseph D WilliamsDepartment of Community Health, Voluntary Health Services, Chennai, India.
Zhaorui LiuSocial Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Institute of Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Isaac Acosta CastilloNational Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery of Mexico, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
Rosie MaystonGlobal Health and Social Medicine, King's Global Health Institute, Social Science and Public Policy, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

LonelinessMortalityAgedChinaCross-Sectional StudiesHumansIndiaLatin AmericaPrevalenceRisk Factorslonelinesslow- and middle-income countriesmortalityolder adultssocial ageing

Identifiers

PMID34744572
PMCPMC8565277

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