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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2024

Waist Circumference and Body Mass Index as Predictors of Disability Progression in Multiple Sclerosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Vasileios Giannopapas, Maria-Ioanna Stefanou, Vassiliki Smyrni, Dimitrios K Kitsos, Maria Kosmidou, Sophia Stasi, Athanasios K Chasiotis, Konstantina Stavrogianni, Georgia Papagiannopoulou, John S Tzartos and 3 more

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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17citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
7.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

13 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Vasileios GiannopapasSecond Department of Neurology, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Maria-Ioanna StefanouSecond Department of Neurology, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Vassiliki SmyrniSecond Department of Neurology, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Dimitrios K KitsosSecond Department of Neurology, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-0722-9329
Maria KosmidouDepartment of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece.
Sophia StasiBiomechanics Laboratory, Department of Physiotherapy, University of Peloponnese, 23100 Sparta, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-4238-2700
Athanasios K ChasiotisSecond Department of Neurology, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-7496-1195
Konstantina StavrogianniSecond Department of Neurology, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-1221-4618
Georgia PapagiannopoulouSecond Department of Neurology, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.
John S TzartosSecond Department of Neurology, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.
George P ParaskevasSecond Department of Neurology, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-2481-3060
Georgios TsivgoulisSecond Department of Neurology, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-0640-3797
Sotirios GiannopoulosSecond Department of Neurology, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-7443-5179
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRUniversity of Ioannina · GRUniversity of Peloponnese · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

body mass index (BMI)disability progressionmultiple sclerosisobesitywaist circumference (WC)

Identifiers

PMID38541964
PMCPMC10970884
OpenAlexW4392915318

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