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ArticleAmerican journal of cardiovascular disease2025

A normal and particularly small left atrial size measured during echocardiography MAY NOT suggest low likelihood of moderate or severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction.

Gregory Mints, Jina Bai, Arthur Evans

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Article in American journal of cardiovascular disease, 2025. 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Gregory MintsDepartment of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, Kings County Hospital and SUNY Downstate Medical University Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Jina BaiDepartment of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine New York, NY, USA.
Arthur EvansDepartment of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine New York, NY, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This is letter to the editor: we point to a statistical error in a recent article published in the journal by Movahed MR, Soltani Moghadam A.

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PMID41567848
PMCPMC12816777

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