Evidence map›Paper›PMID 16914485›Full record

Trial reportHeart (British Cardiac Society)2007

Effects of atorvastatin and vitamin C on forearm hyperaemic blood flow, asymmentrical dimethylarginine levels and the inflammatory process in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Dimitris Tousoulis, Charalambos Antoniades, Carmen Vasiliadou, Pantelis Kourtellaris, Katerina Koniari, Kyriakoula Marinou, Marietta Charakida, Ioannis Ntarladimas, Gerasimos Siasos, Christodoulos Stefanadis

Open access · bronzeAbstract readComparative StudyLetterRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Heart (British Cardiac Society), 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
28citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 27% 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

28 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 69 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Effect of atorvastatin on testosterone levels.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021
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  10. Mental stress induces endothelial dysfunction by AT1R-mediated redox imbalance in overweight/obese men.Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologica · 2023
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  15. The Association Between Hyperlipidemia and In-Hospital Outcomes in Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2021
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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

10 authors.

Dimitris Tousoulis
Charalambos Antoniades
Carmen Vasiliadou
Pantelis Kourtellaris
Katerina Koniari
Kyriakoula Marinou
Marietta Charakida
Ioannis Ntarladimas
Gerasimos Siasos
Christodoulos Stefanadis

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Anti-Inflammatory AgentsAntioxidantsArginineAscorbic AcidAtorvastatinCytokinesDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2Endothelium, VascularFemaleForearmHeptanoic AcidsHumansHyperemiaMaleMiddle AgedPyrrolesAnti-Inflammatory AgentsAntioxidantsArginineAscorbic AcidAtorvastatinCytokinesdimethylarginineHeptanoic AcidsPyrrolesVitamins

Identifiers

PMID16914485
PMCPMC1861391
OpenAlexW2116785215

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.