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ArticleThe Cochrane database of systematic reviews2025

Lower-limb neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) for people with chronic kidney disease undergoing dialysis.

Louise Beresford, Susan Dewhurst, Alastair Hutchison, Anand D Pandyan

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Article in The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Louise BeresfordRehabilitation and Sport Sciences, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK.
Susan DewhurstRehabilitation and Sport Sciences, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK.
Alastair HutchisonDepartment of Renal Care, Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester, UK.
Anand D PandyanFaculty of Health and Social Sciences, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesThis is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: To assess the effects of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) on muscle structure and function in people undergoing dialysis.

Indexed as

Electric Stimulation TherapyRenal DialysisRenal Insufficiency, ChronicHumansLower ExtremityMuscle, SkeletalMuscle StrengthRandomized Controlled Trials as Topic

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PMID40377145
PMCPMC12083061

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