TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - Comments on systematic review and meta-analysis of global prevalence of neurotoxic and hemotoxic snakebite envenomation, paper published in EMHJ Vol. 28 No. 12
JO  - Eastern Mediterranean health journal
A1  - Mullins, Michael
SP  - 673
EP  - 675
VL  - 29
IS  - 8
N2  - In an article published by EMHJ Vol. 28 No. 12 of 2022, Suhita et al. attempted a systematic review and meta- analysis of the prevalence of neurotoxic and hemotoxic snakebites globally (1). The authors used the right resources for the review but erred in using systematic review to answer an epidemiological question that is not amenable to this method. The result is the spurious conclusion that North America has the highest prevalence of hemotoxic and neurotoxic snakebites in the world. Their conclusions conflict with WHO data showing that the burden falls most heavily in Asia and Africa (2,3).     They reviewed 35 articles from USA and overlooked other North American snakebite literature meeting their search criteria (4-9). Few of the articles cited measured prevalence by systematic data collection but described specific cohorts of patients defined by their envenomation or geography.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1020-3397
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.26719/emhj.23.102
ID  - ref1
ER  -