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Gordon H. Guyatt

Researcher at McMaster University

Publications -  1749
Citations -  262329

Gordon H. Guyatt is an academic researcher from McMaster University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Randomized controlled trial & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 231, co-authored 1620 publications receiving 228631 citations. Previous affiliations of Gordon H. Guyatt include Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center & Cayetano Heredia University.

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Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines (8th Edition)

TL;DR: The new and updated recommendations are provided and several important changes that are made in the guideline development process are reviewed, including an attempt to increase the participation of female authors and contributors from outside North America.
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Effects of Dietary Calcium Supplementation on Blood Pressure: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

TL;DR: Calcium supplementation may lead to a small reduction in systolic but not diastolic blood pressure, and further studies should address the hypothesis that inadequate calcium intake is associated with increased blood pressure that can be corrected with calcium supplementation.
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Meta-analyses of therapies for postmenopausal osteoporosis. VIII: Meta-analysis of the efficacy of vitamin D treatment in preventing osteoporosis in postmenopausal women.

TL;DR: Vitamin D decreases vertebral fractures and may decrease nonvertebral fractures, and the available data are uninformative regarding the relative effects of standard and hydroxylated vitamin D.
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Clinical impact versus factor analysis for quality of life questionnaire construction

TL;DR: Two philosophically different methods for selecting items for a disease-specific quality of life questionnaire are compared, the impact method selects items that are most frequently perceived as important by patients whereas the psychometric method (factor analysis) selects items primarily according to their relationships with one another.