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ArticleOsteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA2025

Serum β-CTX-I to predict ONJ? The false promise of a number.

Etienne Cavalier, Samuel R Vasikaran, Harjit Pal Bhattoa, Markus Herrmann, Konstantinos Makris, Eugene V McCloskey, Nicholas C Harvey

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Article in Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Probiotic Supplementation and Bone Health Parameters in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2026
    Pooled it
  2. Beyond the fracture: coordinated action for bone health equity in Africa.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 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

7 authors.

Etienne CavalierService de Chimie Clinique, CHU de Liège, Domaine du Sart-Tilman, Tour 6, Route 656, B-4000, Liège, Belgium. etienne.cavalier@chuliege.be.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0947-2226
Samuel R VasikaranDepartment of Core Clinical Pathology and Biochemistry, PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, WA, Australia.
Harjit Pal BhattoaDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary.
Markus HerrmannClinical Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
Konstantinos MakrisDepartment of Clinical Biochemistry, KAT General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Eugene V McCloskeyMellanby Centre for Bone Research, Department of Oncology and Metabolism, The Medical School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Nicholas C HarveyMRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID40983740

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