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ReviewCurrent cardiology reports2018

Cholesterol-Lowering Nutraceuticals Affecting Vascular Function and Cardiovascular Disease Risk.

Vanessa Bianconi, Massimo Raffaele Mannarino, Amirhossein Sahebkar, Teresa Cosentino, Matteo Pirro

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Review in Current cardiology reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  8. Cholesterol-Lowering Therapy in Patients at Low-to-Moderate Cardiovascular Risk.High blood pressure & cardiovascular prevention : the official journal of the Italian Society of Hypertension · 2022
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  9. Effects of statins on mitochondrial pathways.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2021
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  10. Nanonutraceuticals: The New Frontier of Supplementary Food.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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  14. Effects of Curcumin on Microglial Cells.Neurotoxicity research · 2019
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  15. Commentary to "The Possible Role of Nutraceuticals in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease".High blood pressure & cardiovascular prevention : the official journal of the Italian Society of Hypertension · 2019
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  16. The Possible Role of Nutraceuticals in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease.High blood pressure & cardiovascular prevention : the official journal of the Italian Society of Hypertension · 2019
    Review
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

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Vanessa BianconiUnit of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
Massimo Raffaele MannarinoUnit of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
Amirhossein SahebkarBiotechnology Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Teresa CosentinoUnit of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
Matteo PirroUnit of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy. matteo.pirro@unipg.it.
Ospedale Santa Maria · ITMashhad University of Medical Sciences · IRUniversity of Perugia · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewThe aim of this review is to provide an update on the effects of the dietary supplementation with cholesterol-lowering nutraceuticals and nutraceutical combinations affecting vascular function and CV risk in clinical interventional studies. RECENT

findingsCurrent evidence supports the mild-to-moderate cholesterol-lowering efficacy of red yeast rice, berberine, plant sterols, fibers, and some nutraceutical combinations whereas data on the individual cholesterol-lowering action of other nutraceuticals are either less striking or even inconclusive. There is also promising evidence on the vascular protective effects of some of the aforementioned nutraceuticals. However, except for red yeast rice, clinical interventional studies have not investigated their impact on CV outcomes. Evidence of both cholesterol-lowering and vascular protection is a prerogative of few single nutraceuticals and nutraceutical combinations, which may support their clinical use; however, caution on their uncontrolled adoption is necessary as they are freely available on the market and, therefore, subject to potential misuse.

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Dietary SupplementsAnticholesteremic AgentsBerberineBiological ProductsCardiovascular DiseasesCholesterolCurcuminDietary FiberGlycine maxHumansPhytosterolsPolyphenolsAnticholesteremic AgentsBerberineBiological ProductsCholesterolCurcuminDietary FiberPhytosterolsPolyphenolsred yeast riceCardiovascularCholesterol-loweringLDL cholesterolNutraceuticalPrevention

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PMID29802549
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