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ArticleHeart (British Cardiac Society)2018

Cochrane corner: beta-blockers for hypertension.

Charles S Wiysonge, Hazel A Bradley, Jimmy Volmink, Bongani M Mayosi

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Article in Heart (British Cardiac Society), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing 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

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

  1. Genome-Wide Meta-Analysis of Blood Pressure Response to βJournal of the American Heart Association · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Charles S WiysongeCochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa.
Hazel A BradleySchool of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
Jimmy VolminkCentre for Evidence-Based Health Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
Bongani M MayosiDepartment of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Adrenergic beta-AntagonistsHypertensionAntihypertensive AgentsHumansAdrenergic beta-AntagonistsAntihypertensive AgentsHypertension

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PMID28756403
PMCPMC5861391

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