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ArticleFrontiers in cardiovascular medicine2021

Waist-To-Hip Ratio Predicts Abnormal Overnight Oximetry in Men Independent of Body Mass Index.

Joshua M Bock, Kirk J Rodysill, Andrew D Calvin, Soumya Vungarala, Karine R Sahakyan, Stephen S Cha, Anna Svatikova, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, Virend K Somers

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Article 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 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 30% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Obesity and its management in primary care setting.Journal of diabetes and its complications · 2025
    Review
  3. Polysomnographic predictors of incident diabetes and pre-diabetes: an analysis of the DREAM study.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Joshua M BockCardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States.
Kirk J RodysillDivision of Preventive, Occupational, and Aerospace Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States.
Andrew D CalvinCardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States.
Soumya VungaralaCardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States.
Karine R SahakyanCardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States.
Stephen S ChaBiomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States.
Anna SvatikovaCardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States.
Francisco Lopez-JimenezCardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States.
Virend K SomersCardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States.
Mayo Clinic in Arizona · USMayo Clinic · USJohns Hopkins Medicine · USMayo Clinic Health System · USMayo Clinic in Florida · US

Funding

CARDIOVASOLOGYT32HL007111 · NHLBI · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI Barry A. Borlaug · 1985 to 2026
$8.7M
NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007111
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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body fat distributionbody mass indexobesityobstructive sleep apneaoximetry

Identifiers

PMID34977196
PMCPMC8714785
OpenAlexW4200455032

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