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ReviewForensic science, medicine, and pathology2024

Suicidal sodium nitrite intoxication: a case report focusing on the postmortem findings and toxicological analyses-review of the literature.

D Andelhofs, W Van Den Bogaert, B Lepla, K Croes, W Van de Voorde

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Review in Forensic science, medicine, and pathology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

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

  1. Suicide by sodium nitrite ingestion: a systematic review.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2026
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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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

D AndelhofsDepartment of Forensic Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Louvain, Belgium. dieter.andelhofs@uzleuven.be.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0007-5806-9587
W Van Den BogaertDepartment of Forensic Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Louvain, Belgium.
B LeplaDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, AZ Groeninge, Kortrijk, Belgium.
K CroesDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, AZ Groeninge, Kortrijk, Belgium.
W Van de VoordeDepartment of Forensic Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Louvain, Belgium.
KU Leuven · BEAZ Groeninge · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sodium nitrite (NaNO

Indexed as

MethemoglobinemiaSodium NitriteSuicide, CompletedVitreous BodyFood PreservativesForensic ToxicologyGastrointestinal ContentsHumansHypernatremiaFood PreservativesSodium NitriteForensic pathologyForensic toxicologyMethemoglobinemiaSodium nitriteSuicide

Identifiers

PMID37351779
OpenAlexW4381715396

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.