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ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Clinical Implications of Uric Acid in Heart Failure: A Comprehensive Review.

Marko Kumrić, Josip A Borovac, Tina Tičinović Kurir, Joško Božić

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Review in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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27citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.7field-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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Marko KumrićDepartment of Pathophysiology, University of Split School of Medicine, 21000 Split, Croatia.
Josip A BorovacDepartment of Pathophysiology, University of Split School of Medicine, 21000 Split, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0002-4878-8146
Tina Tičinović KurirDepartment of Pathophysiology, University of Split School of Medicine, 21000 Split, Croatia.
Joško BožićDepartment of Pathophysiology, University of Split School of Medicine, 21000 Split, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0003-1634-0635
University of Split · HRCroatian Hydrographic Institute · HR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Affecting more than 26 million people worldwide and with rising prevalence, heart failure (HF) represents a major global health problem. Hence, further research is needed in order to abate poor HF outcomes and mitigate significant expenses that burden health care systems. Based on available data, experts agree that there is an urgent need for a cost-effective prognostic biomarker in HF. Although a significant number of biomarkers have already been investigated in this setting, the clinical utility of adding biomarker evaluation to routine HF care still remains ambiguous. Specifically, in this review we focused on uric acid (UA), a purine metabolism detriment whose role as cardiovascular risk factor has been exhaustingly debated for decades. Multiple large population studies indicate that UA is an independent predictor of mortality in acute and chronic HF, making it a significant prognostic factor in both settings. High serum levels have been also associated with an increased incidence of HF, thus expanding the clinical utility of UA. Importantly, emerging data suggests that UA is also implicated in the pathogenesis of HF, which sheds light on UA as a feasible therapeutic target. Although to date clinical studies have not been able to prove the benefits of xanthine oxidase in HF patients, we discuss the putative role of UA and xanthine oxidase in the pathophysiology of HF as a therapeutic target.

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biomarkersheart failureOXIDATIVE stressuric acid

Identifiers

PMID33466609
PMCPMC7828696
OpenAlexW3119648967

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