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ReviewWorld journal of cardiology2025

Lepodisiran: From genetic targeting to cardiovascular promise: A detailed narrative review of the literature.

Affan Faisal, Abdul Basit, Abdullah Iftikhar, Muneeb Saifullah, M Khalil Ur Rehmaan, Abdul M Basil

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Review in World journal of cardiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

6 authors.

Affan FaisalDepartment of Medicine, King Edward Medical University, Lahore 54000, Punjab, Pakistan.
Abdul BasitDepartment of Medicine, King Edward Medical University, Lahore 54000, Punjab, Pakistan.
Abdullah IftikharDepartment of Medicine, King Edward Medical University, Lahore 54000, Punjab, Pakistan.
Muneeb SaifullahDepartment of Medicine, King Edward Medical University, Lahore 54000, Punjab, Pakistan.
M Khalil Ur RehmaanDepartment of Medicine, Sialkot Medical College, Sialkot 51040, Punjab, Pakistan.
Abdul M BasilDepartment of Medicine, Spinghar Medical University, Kabul 1001, Afghanistan. abdulmaboodbasil@outlook.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Elevated lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is a major independent risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), with limited response to traditional lipid-lowering therapies. Lepodisiran, a novel N-acetylgalactosamine-conjugated small interfering RNA, targets hepatic

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Atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseaseCardiovascular medicineGene targetingLepodisiranLipid lowering agents

Identifiers

PMID40949934
PMCPMC12426975

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