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ReviewCurrent atherosclerosis reports2004

Lessons learned from the prospective pravastatin pooling project.

Robert P Byington, Frank M Sacks

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Review in Current atherosclerosis reports, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 26% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Cholesterol lowering to prevent stroke: who, when, and how?Current treatment options in neurology · 2006
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Robert P ByingtonDepartment of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1063, USA. bbyingto@wfubmc.edu
Frank M Sacks
Wake Forest University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Prospective Pravastatin Pooling (PPP) Project was a prospectively defined collaboration of three randomized, placebo-controlled, long-term, monotherapy (40 mg/d) trials of the lipid-lowering agent pravastatin. A pooled database of 19,768 participants with a mean of 5.2 years of follow-up was created, providing the investigators with over 100,000 patient-years of experience to address questions on total and cause-specific mortality, coronary incidence, stroke, and safety. One trial (West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study) was primary prevention and two (Cholesterol and Recurrent Events and Long-term Intervention with Pravastatin in Ischemic Disease) were secondary prevention. Pravastatin was shown to safely reduce all-cause mortality, fatal and nonfatal coronary events, and stroke events in patients with a broad range of patient characteristics.

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AdultAgedCoronary DiseaseFemaleHumansHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsIncidenceLipid MetabolismMaleMiddle AgedPravastatinProspective StudiesRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicStrokeTreatment OutcomeHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsPravastatin

Identifiers

PMID15296703
OpenAlexW2078350968

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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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 OpenQuestion graph.