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ArticleJournal of primary care & community health

We Should Do More to Offer Evidence-Based Treatment for an Important Modifiable Risk Factor for COVID-19: Obesity.

Nirjhar Dutta, Nicholas E Ingraham, Michael G Usher, Claudia Fox, Christopher J Tignanelli, Carolyn T Bramante

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Article in Journal of primary care & community health. 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.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
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, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Observational
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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nirjhar DuttaUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9066-6452
Nicholas E IngrahamUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0292-0594
Michael G UsherUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Claudia FoxUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Christopher J TignanelliUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Carolyn T BramanteUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
University of Minnesota · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Observational studies, from multiple countries, repeatedly demonstrate an association between obesity and severe COVID-19, which is defined as need for hospitalization, intensive care unit admission, invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) or death. Meta-analysis of studies from China, USA, and France show odds ratio (OR) of 2.31 (95% CI 1.3-4.1) for obesity and severe COVID-19. Other studies show OR of 12.1 (95% CI 3.25-45.1) for mortality and OR of 7.36 (95% CI 1.63-33.14) for need for IMV for patients with body mass index (BMI) ≥ 35 kg/m

Indexed as

Body Mass IndexCOVID-19Severity of Illness IndexAwarenessHospitalizationHospital MortalityHumansInsulin ResistanceIntensive Care UnitsIntra-Abdominal FatObesityOdds RatioRespiration, ArtificialRisk FactorsSARS-CoV-2BMICOVID-19obesitySARS-CoV-2weight

Identifiers

PMID33648370
PMCPMC7930643
OpenAlexW3135019203

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Registered trials

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