NEJM paper retracted for “inaccuracies in the analytic database and data analyses”

Until yesterday, the New England Journal of Medicine had retracted only 24 papers. Now that tally is 25.

As our Ivan Oransky reports at Medscape:

The original paper found that “ambulatory blood-pressure measurements were a stronger predictor of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality than clinic blood-pressure measurements,” the authors wrote. It made a bit of a splash, and has been cited 190 times, according to Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science, earning it a “hot paper” and “highly cited paper” designation.

Head over to Medscape to learn why the paper was retracted.

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