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Trial reportClinical pharmacology and therapeutics2007

Decreased skeletal muscle mitochondrial DNA in patients treated with high-dose simvastatin.

B A Schick, R Laaksonen, J J Frohlich, H Päivä, T Lehtimäki, K H Humphries, H C F Côté

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In one paragraph

Trial report in Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06841536 (Combined Effects of Statins and Exercise on Physiological Health Markers and Quality of Life in Patients With Dyslipidaemia), which is not on this map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT06841536 nacompletedstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Combined Effects of Statins and Exercise on Physiological Health Markers and Quality of Life in Patients With Dyslipidaemia

Ran2025Enrolled120Registered outcomes61Posted comparisons0ConditionsDyslipidemiasArmsAtorvastatin 80mg, Exercise
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 102 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Simvastatin impairs exercise training adaptations.Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2013 · on this map
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  2. Review
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  5. Effects of statins on mitochondrial pathways.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2021
    Review
  6. Article
  7. Statins interfere with the attachment ofJournal of enzyme inhibition and medicinal chemistry · 2020
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  8. Review
  9. Lipid-lowering Therapies in Myositis.Current rheumatology reports · 2020
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  13. An image-based small-molecule screen identifies vimentin as a pharmacologically relevant target of simvastatin in cancer cells.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2018
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  14. Review
  15. Statins, Muscle Disease and Mitochondria.Journal of clinical medicine · 2017
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  18. Molecular mechanisms of statin intolerance.Archives of medical science : AMS · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

B A SchickDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and Research Unit, Tampere University Hospital, Finland.
R Laaksonen
J J Frohlich
H Päivä
T Lehtimäki
K H Humphries
H C F Côté
University of British Columbia · CATampere University · FITampere University Hospital · FI

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Statins are generally well tolerated, but can cause myopathy and have been associated with mitochondrial abnormalities. The aim of this study was to determine whether muscle mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) levels are altered during statin therapy. We retrospectively quantified mtDNA in 86 skeletal muscle biopsy specimens collected as part of a previously published clinical trial of high-dose simvastatin or atorvastatin versus placebo.

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AdultAgedAtorvastatinDNA, MitochondrialDouble-Blind MethodFemaleHeptanoic AcidsHumansHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsHypercholesterolemiaLongitudinal StudiesMaleMiddle AgedMitochondria, MusclePyrrolesRetrospective StudiesAtorvastatinDNA, MitochondrialHeptanoic AcidsHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsPyrrolesSimvastatinUbiquinone

Identifiers

PMID17329991
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