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ReviewCurrent heart failure reports2006

Recent insights into cardiac hypertrophy and left ventricular remodeling.

Risto Kerkela, Thomas Force

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Review in Current heart failure reports, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 20% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 17 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Risto KerkelaJefferson Medical College, 1025 Walnut Street, College Bldg, Room 316, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.
Thomas Force
Jefferson College · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiac hypertrophy is a compensatory mechanism of the heart to maintain cardiac output under stresses that compromise cardiac function. Mechanical stretch and neurohumoral factors induce changes in intracellular signaling pathways resulting in increased protein synthesis and activation of specific genes promoting cardiac growth, eventually leading to left ventricular remodeling and cardiac dysfunction. The remodeling process results from alterations in cardiac myocytes as well as the extracellular matrix.

Indexed as

Ventricular RemodelingAnimalsBlood PressureCardiomegalyCytokinesExtracellular MatrixGene ExpressionHumansSignal TransductionCytokines

Identifiers

PMID16684492
OpenAlexW1967437847

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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.