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ReviewVascular health and risk management2013

Statins in heart failure: do we need another trial?

Kwadwo Osei Bonsu, Amudha Kadirvelu, Daniel Diamond Reidpath

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Review in Vascular health and risk management, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.9field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Hydrophilic or Lipophilic Statins?Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2021
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  12. Appropriate candidates for statin use in heart failure.The Korean journal of internal medicine · 2014
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  13. Beyond lipid lowering: pleiotropic effects of statins in heart failure.Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2013
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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

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Kwadwo Osei BonsuSchool of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Sunway Campus, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia.
Amudha Kadirvelu
Daniel Diamond Reidpath
Monash University · AUMonash University Malaysia · MYSunway University · MY

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Statins lower serum cholesterol and are employed for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular events. Clinical evidence from observational studies, retrospective data, and post hoc analyses of data from large statin trials in various cardiovascular conditions, as well as small scale randomized trials, suggest survival and other outcome benefits for heart failure. Two recent large randomized controlled trials, however, appear to suggest statins do not have beneficial effects in heart failure. In addition to lowering cholesterol, statins are believed to have many pleotropic effects which could possibly influence the pathophysiology of heart failure. Following the two large trials, evidence from recent studies appears to support the use of statins in heart failure. This review discusses the role of statins in the pathophysiology of heart failure, current evidence for statin use in heart failure, and suggests directions for future research.

Indexed as

Clinical Trials as TopicAnimalsEvidence-Based MedicineHeart FailureHumansHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsTreatment OutcomeHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitorscomorbidityheart failuremortalitystatinstreatment

Identifiers

PMID23807852
PMCPMC3688443
OpenAlexW2033867558

What Socratic holds

Texttitle and abstract
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Registered trials

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