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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2024

Methodological and Statistical Considerations for Cross-Sectional, Case-Control, and Cohort Studies.

Edsaúl Emilio Pérez-Guerrero, Miryam Rosario Guillén-Medina, Fabiola Márquez-Sandoval, José María Vera-Cruz, Martha Patricia Gallegos-Arreola, Manuel Alejandro Rico-Méndez, José Alonso Aguilar-Velázquez, Itzae Adonai Gutiérrez-Hurtado

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In one paragraph

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 41 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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41citing papers in PubMed, 7 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

41 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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

8 authors.

Edsaúl Emilio Pérez-GuerreroDepartamento de Biología Molecular y Genómica, Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias Biomédicas, Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara 44340, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-0007-1824
Miryam Rosario Guillén-MedinaDoctorado en Farmacología, Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias Biomédicas, Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara 44340, Mexico.ORCID 0009-0000-5128-8495
Fabiola Márquez-SandovalDoctorado en Ciencias de la Nutrición Traslacional, Departamento de Clínicas de la Reproducción Humana, Crecimiento y Desarrollo Infantil, Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara 44340, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-4530-3940
José María Vera-CruzDepartamento de Biología Molecular y Genómica, Instituto de Nutrigenética y Nutrigenómica Traslacional, Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara 44340, Mexico.
Martha Patricia Gallegos-ArreolaDivisión de Genética, Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Occidente (CIBO), Centro Médico Nacional de Occidente (CMNO), Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), Guadalajara 44340, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0003-4539-1693
Manuel Alejandro Rico-MéndezDoctorado en Genética Humana, Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara 44340, Mexico.
José Alonso Aguilar-VelázquezLaboratorio de Ciencias Morfológico Forenses y Medicina Molecular, Departamento de Morfología, Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara 44340, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-5346-5595
Itzae Adonai Gutiérrez-HurtadoDepartamento de Biología Molecular y Genómica, Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara 44340, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0001-6174-0609

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epidemiological studies are essential in medicine and public health as they help identify risk factors and causes of diseases. Additionally, they are key to planning, implementing, and evaluating health interventions aimed at preventing and controlling the spread of diseases. Among these studies, analytical observational studies, such as cross-sectional, case-control, and cohort studies, are the most used. The validity of their results largely depends on the robustness of the design, execution, and statistical analysis.

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case–control studiescohort studiescross-sectional studiesmethodologystatistics

Identifiers

PMID39064045
PMCPMC11277135

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