Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40909441›Full record

ArticleBMJ medicine2025

Common methodological issues in observational epidemiological studies of older adults.

Emma Nichols, Eleanor Hayes-Larson

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in BMJ medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. The Cog-Aging: a 15-year cohort study of cognition in Brazilian older adults.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. The social environment and cognitive aging over the life course: laying out critical concepts and research gaps.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
    Review
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

2 authors.

Emma NicholsCenter for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9005-3872
Eleanor Hayes-LarsonLeonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Funding

Effects of lifecourse traumatic stress on late-life cognitive decline, dementia, and neuroimaging biomarkersR00AG075317 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Eleanor Louise Hayes-Larson · 2024 to 2026
$742k
NIA NIH HHS R00 AG075317
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

EpidemiologyGeriatricsPublic healthStatistics

Identifiers

PMID40909441
PMCPMC12406907

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.