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SynthesisEuropean heart journal. Acute cardiovascular care2014

Outcomes among non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes patients with no angiographically obstructive coronary artery disease: observations from 37,101 patients.

Gaetano M De Ferrari, Keith A A Fox, Jennifer A White, Robert P Giugliano, Pierluigi Tricoci, Harmony R Reynolds, Judith S Hochman, C Michael Gibson, Pierre Théroux, Robert A Harrington and 4 more

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Synthesis in European heart journal. Acute cardiovascular care, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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26citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.4field-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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. Acute myocardial infarction in young women: current perspectives.International journal of women's health · 2018
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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

14 authors at 10 institutions in 5 countries.

Gaetano M De FerrariDepartment of Cardiology, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy.
Keith A A Fox
Jennifer A White
Robert P Giugliano
Pierluigi Tricoci
Harmony R Reynolds
Judith S Hochman
C Michael Gibson
Pierre Théroux
Robert A Harrington
Frans Van de Werf
Harvey D White
Robert M Califf
L Kristin Newby
Clinical Research Institute · USAuckland City Hospital · NZBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · USBrigham and Women's Hospital · USDuke Medical Center · USDuke University · USMontreal Heart Institute · CAPoliclinico San Matteo Fondazione · ITStanford University · USUniversity of Edinburgh · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimsLimited data exist concerning outcomes of patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTE ACS) with no angiographically obstructive coronary artery disease (non-obstructive CAD). We assessed the frequency of clinical outcomes among patients with non-obstructive CAD compared with obstructive CAD. METHODS AND

resultsWe pooled data from eight NSTE ACS randomized clinical trials from 1994 to 2008, including 37,101 patients who underwent coronary angiography. The primary outcome was 30-day death or myocardial infarction (MI). Adjusted odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for 30-day death or MI for non-obstructive versus obstructive CAD were generated for each trial. Summary ORs (95% CIs) across trials were generated using random effects models. Overall, 3550 patients (9.6%) had non-obstructive CAD. They were younger, more were female, and fewer had diabetes mellitus, previous MI or prior percutaneous coronary intervention than patients with obstructive CAD. Thirty-day death or MI was less frequent among patients with non-obstructive CAD (2.2%) versus obstructive CAD (13.3%) (OR(adj) 0.15; 95% CI, 0.11-0.20); 30-day death or spontaneous MI and six-month mortality were also less frequent among patients with non-obstructive CAD (OR(adj) 0.19 (0.14-0.25) and 0.37 (0.28-0.49), respectively).

conclusionAmong patients with NSTE ACS, one in 10 had non-obstructive CAD. Death or MI occurred in 2.2% of these patients by 30 days. Compared with patients with obstructive CAD, the rate of major cardiac events was lower in patients with non-obstructive CAD but was not negligible, prompting the need to better understand management strategies for this group.

Indexed as

Acute Coronary SyndromeCoronary AngiographyCoronary StenosisElectrocardiographyPercutaneous Coronary InterventionDiagnosis, DifferentialFemaleFollow-Up StudiesGlobal HealthHumansMaleMiddle AgedMulticenter Studies as TopicPrognosisProspective StudiesRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicAcute coronary syndromesangiographyatherosclerosiscoronary diseaseinfarction

Identifiers

PMID24562802
PMCPMC3932771
OpenAlexW2113954106

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