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ReviewJournal of negative results in biomedicine2005

The "Statinth" wonder of the world: a panacea for all illnesses or a bubble about to burst.

Nusrat Shafiq, Samir Malhotra, Promila Pandhi, Anil Grover

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Review in Journal of negative results in biomedicine, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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. Review
  2. What clinical pharmacology means to us.Mens sana monographs · 2006
    Article
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.

Nusrat ShafiqDepartment of Pharmacology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012, India. samirmalhotra345@yahoo.com
Samir Malhotra
Promila Pandhi
Anil Grover

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

After the introduction of statins in the market as effective lipid lowering agents, they were shown to have effects other than lipid lowering. These actions were collectively referred to as 'pleiotropic actions of statins.' Pleiotropism of statins formed the basis for evaluating statins for several indications other than lipid lowering. Evidence both in favour and against is available for several of these indications. The current review attempts to critically summarise the available data for each of these indications.

Indexed as

DiseaseAnimalsAntimetabolitesArrhythmias, CardiacDiabetes MellitusHeart DiseasesHumansNeoplasmsAntimetabolites

Identifiers

PMID15788096
PMCPMC1079931

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