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ReviewPostgraduate medical journal2004

Use of diuretics in cardiovascular diseases: (1) heart failure.

S U Shah, S Anjum, W A Littler

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Review in Postgraduate medical journal, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 41% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Hypertensive Heart Failure.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023
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  2. Article
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  5. Cardiorenal syndrome type 2: from diagnosis to optimal management.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2014
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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

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

S U ShahUniversity of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. saeedshah@miranshah.freeserve.co.uk
S Anjum
W A Littler
Glan Clwyd Hospital · GBNIHR Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre · GBUniversity of Birmingham · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diuretics are used extensively in hospitals and in community medical practice for the management of cardiovascular diseases. They are used frequently as the first line treatment for mild to moderate hypertension and are an integral part of the management of symptomatic heart failure. Although diuretics have been used for several decades, there is still some ambiguity and confusion regarding the optimal way of using these common drugs. In this paper, the classes and action of diuretics are reviewed, and the various indications, optimal doses, and recommendations on the effective use of these agents are discussed.

Indexed as

Chronic DiseaseDiureticsDrug ResistanceHeart FailureHumansDiuretics

Identifiers

PMID15082840
PMCPMC1742985
OpenAlexW2091528564

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Registered trials

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