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SynthesisFrontiers in public health2022

The prevalence of foot ulcers in diabetic patients in Pakistan: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Sohail Akhtar, Aqsa Ali, Sadique Ahmad, Muhammad Imran Khan, Sajid Shah, Fazal Hassan

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Synthesis in Frontiers in public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Sohail AkhtarDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Haripur, Haripur, Pakistan.
Aqsa AliDepartment of Statistics, Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan.
Sadique AhmadEIAS, Data Science and Blockchain Laboratory, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Muhammad Imran KhanDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Haripur, Haripur, Pakistan.
Sajid ShahEIAS, Data Science and Blockchain Laboratory, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Fazal HassanDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Haripur, Haripur, Pakistan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We aimed to determine the pooled prevalence of diabetic foot ulcers in Pakistan. MEDLINE (PubMed), Web of Science, Google scholars, and local databases were systematically searched for studies published up to August 10, 2022, on the prevalence of foot

Indexed as

Diabetes MellitusDiabetic FootHumansPakistanPrevalencediabetesfoot ulcermeta-analysisPakistanpooled prevalencesystematic review

Identifiers

PMID36388315
PMCPMC9640936

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