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Trial reportJournal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.)2010

Low-dose statin therapy improves endothelial function in type 2 diabetic patients with normal serum total cholesterol: a randomized placebo-controlled study.

Amr Adel, Zainab Abdel-Salam, Wail Nammas

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Trial report in Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Survival Time of Visual Gains after Diabetic Vitrectomy and Its Relationship with Ischemic Heart Disease.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Amr AdelCardiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt.
Zainab Abdel-Salam
Wail Nammas
Ain Shams University · EG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The authors sought to explore the effect of low-dose atorvastatin on endothelial function in normocholesterolemic patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus without evidence of coronary disease. Sixty patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, normal serum cholesterol, and normal exercise test results were enrolled. Initial assessment was performed by measurement of the brachial artery diameter and flow velocity both at baseline and after induced hyperemia. Patients were randomly assigned to receive either atorvastatin 10 mg daily for 4 weeks (atorvastatin group=30 patients) or matched placebo for the same period (placebo group=30 patients). Follow-up assessment of the brachial artery diameter and flow velocity (both baseline and hyperemic) was performed after 4 weeks. Initially, no significant difference was found between the two groups regarding brachial artery diameter or flow velocity, both at baseline and at peak hyperemia (P>.05 for all). At follow-up, there was a significantly higher flow velocity at baseline (P<.05) and a significantly higher percent increase of brachial artery diameter (from baseline to peak hyperemia) in the atorvastatin group (P<.05). In patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and normal serum cholesterol without evidence of coronary disease, low-dose atorvastatin improves endothelial function.

Indexed as

AdultAnticholesteremic AgentsAtorvastatinBrachial ArteryCholesterolDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2Endothelium, VascularExercise TestFemaleHeptanoic AcidsHumansHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsMalePlacebosPyrrolesStatistics, NonparametricAnticholesteremic AgentsAtorvastatinCholesterolHeptanoic AcidsHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsPlacebosPyrroles

Identifiers

PMID21029347
PMCPMC8673240
OpenAlexW2078381262

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