Evidence mapPaperPMID 34276813Full record

ReviewEuropean cardiology2021

The Role of C-reactive Protein in Patient Risk Stratification and Treatment.

Ramón Arroyo-Espliguero, María C Viana-Llamas, Alberto Silva-Obregón, Pablo Avanzas

Open access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in European cardiology, 2021. 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.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. The social ambivalence and disease model: Childhood trauma as an antecedent factor linking spousal ambivalence to inflammation.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2026
    Article
  4. Article
  5. Review
  6. Observational
  7. Article
  8. Review
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Review
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Review
  16. 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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ramón Arroyo-EspligueroDepartment of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario de Guadalajara Guadalajara, Spain.
María C Viana-LlamasDepartment of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario de Guadalajara Guadalajara, Spain.
Alberto Silva-ObregónDepartment of Intensive Medicine, Hospital Universitario de Guadalajara Guadalajara, Spain.
Pablo AvanzasDepartment of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias Oviedo, Spain.
Hospital Universitario de Guadalajara · ESUniversidad de Oviedo · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease. Several circulating inflammatory markers have been proposed for clinical use due to their ability to predict future cardiovascular events and may be useful for identifying people at high risk who might benefit from specific treatment to reduce this risk. Moreover, the identification of new therapeutic targets will allow the development of drugs that can help reduce the high residual risk of recurrence of cardiovascular events in patients with coronary artery disease. The clinical benefits of reducing recurrent major cardiovascular events recently shown by canakinumab and colchicine have renewed the cardiology community's interest in inflammation as an aetiopathogenic mechanism for atherosclerosis. This review explores the use of C-reactive protein, which is the most frequently studied biomarker in this context; the concept of residual risk in primary and secondary cardiovascular prevention; and the current recommendations in international guidelines regarding the role of this inflammatory biomarker in cardiovascular risk stratification.

Indexed as

coronary artery diseaseC-reactive proteinInflammationprimary preventionsecondary prevention

Identifiers

PMID34276813
PMCPMC8280753
OpenAlexW3178035499

What Socratic holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.