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ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Ischemic Heart Disease and Rheumatoid Arthritis-Two Conditions, the Same Background.

Elena Rezuș, Luana Andreea Macovei, Alexandra Maria Burlui, Anca Cardoneanu, Ciprian Rezuș

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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 23 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elena RezușDepartment of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 700115 Iași, Romania.
Luana Andreea MacoveiDepartment of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 700115 Iași, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-4856-867X
Alexandra Maria BurluiDepartment of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 700115 Iași, Romania.
Anca CardoneanuDepartment of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 700115 Iași, Romania.
Ciprian RezușDepartment of Internal Medicine, Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 700115 Iași, Romania.
Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy · RO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is one of the most frequent inflammatory rheumatic diseases, having a considerably increased prevalence of mortality and morbidity due to cardiovascular disease (CVD). RA patients have an augmented risk for ischemic and non-ischemic heart disease. Increased cardiovascular (CV) risk is related to disease activity and chronic inflammation. Traditional risk factors and RA-related characteristics participate in vascular involvement, inducing subclinical changes in coronary microcirculation. RA is considered an independent risk factor for coronary artery disease (CAD). Endothelial dysfunction is a precocious marker of atherosclerosis (ATS). Pro-inflammatory cytokines (such as TNFα, IL-1, and IL-6) play an important role in synovial inflammation and ATS progression. Therefore, targeting inflammation is essential to controlling RA and preventing CVD. Present guidelines emphasize the importance of disease control, but studies show that RA- treatment has a different influence on CV risk. Based on the excessive risk for CV events in RA, permanent evaluation of CVD in these patients is critical. CVD risk calculators, designed for the general population, do not use RA-related predictive determinants; also, new scores that take into account RA-derived factors have restricted validity, with none of them encompassing imaging modalities or specific biomarkers involved in RA activity.

Indexed as

atherosclerosiscardiovascular diseasecardiovascular risk assessmentdyslipidemiainflammationrheumatoid arthritistraditional risk factors

Identifiers

PMID34685413
PMCPMC8537055
OpenAlexW3201980488

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