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ArticleAmerican heart journal2010

An update on the IMProved reduction of outcomes: Vytorin Efficacy International Trial (IMPROVE-IT) design.

Robert M Califf, Yuliya Lokhnygina, Christopher P Cannon, Michael E Stepanavage, Carolyn H McCabe, Thomas A Musliner, Richard C Pasternak, Michael A Blazing, Robert P Giugliano, Robert A Harrington and 1 more

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Article in American heart journal, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It reports registered trial NCT00202878. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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23citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

NCT00202878 phase3completed

A Multicenter, Double-Blind, Randomized Study to Establish the Clinical Benefit and Safety of Vytorin (Ezetimibe/Simvastatin Tablet) vs Simvastatin Monotherapy in High-Risk Subjects Presenting With Acute Coronary Syndrome (IMProved Reduction of Outcomes: Vytorin Efficacy International Trial - IMPROVE IT)

Ran2005Enrolled18,144Registered outcomes4Posted comparisons4ConditionsHypercholesterolemia, Myocardial InfarctionArmsezetimibe/simvastatin, Placebo for ezetimibe 10 mg/simvastatin 40 mg combination, Placebo for simvastatin 40 mg, simvastatin
PMID 26330412PMID 25066560PMID 26039521other papers from this trial
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Ezetimibe for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality events.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018 · on this map
    Pooled it
  2. Medication Discontinuation in the IMPROVE-IT Trial.Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes · 2019
    Trial
  3. Trial
  4. Evolving targets for lipid-modifying therapy.EMBO molecular medicine · 2014
    Review
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  8. Article
  9. Review
  10. Observational
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  12. Ezetimibe therapy: mechanism of action and clinical update.Vascular health and risk management · 2012
    Review
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  14. Article
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  16. Economic evaluation of ezetimibe combined with simvastatin for the treatment of primary hypercholesterolaemia.Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2011
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Robert M Califf
Yuliya Lokhnygina
Christopher P Cannon
Michael E Stepanavage
Carolyn H McCabe
Thomas A Musliner
Richard C Pasternak
Michael A Blazing
Robert P Giugliano
Robert A Harrington
Eugene Braunwald

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Acute Coronary SyndromeAzetidinesCholesterol, LDLDrug CombinationsEzetimibe, Simvastatin Drug CombinationHumansHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsModels, StatisticalPatient ComplianceResearch DesignSimvastatinTreatment OutcomeAzetidinesCholesterol, LDLDrug CombinationsEzetimibe, Simvastatin Drug CombinationHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsSimvastatin

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