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ArticleObesity surgery2020

Response to Mocanu et al. Ongoing Inconsistencies in Weight Loss Reporting Following Bariatric Surgery: a Systematic Review. Obesity Surgery https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-018-03702-6Mocanu.

Valentin Mocanu, Awrad Nasralla, Jerry Dang, Mack Jacobson, Noah Switzer, Karen Madsen, Daniel W Birch, Shahzeer Karmali

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Article in Obesity surgery, 2020. 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

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

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No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Valentin MocanuDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. vmocanu@ualberta.ca.
Awrad NasrallaDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Jerry DangDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Mack JacobsonFaculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Noah SwitzerDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Karen MadsenCentre of Excellence for Gastrointestinal Inflammation and Immunity Research (CEGIIR), Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Daniel W BirchDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Shahzeer KarmaliDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Bariatric SurgeryObesity, MorbidHumansLongitudinal StudiesWeight Loss

Identifiers

PMID32318998

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