Alcohol, cardiovascular disease and industry funding: A co-authorship network analysis of systematic reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Alcohol's effects on heart health is the site of a major scientific controversy. We conducted a co-authorship network analysis of systematic reviews on the impacts on alcohol on cardiovascular disease (CVD) in order to investigate patterns of co-authorship in the literature, with particular attention given to industry funding.

Methods

We used Epistemonikos to identify systematic reviews. Review characteristics, influential authors, co-authorship subnetworks, prior histories of alcohol industry funding, study outcomes and citations were investigated.

Results

60 systematic reviews with 231 unique authors met our inclusion criteria. 14 systematic reviews were undertaken by authors with histories of alcohol industry funding, including 5 that were funded directl

SUBMITTER: Golder S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8586735 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature