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ReviewExpert opinion on pharmacotherapy2007

Atorvastatin and statins in the treatment of heart failure.

Tamara B Horwich, W Robb MacLellan

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In one paragraph

Review in Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It reports registered trial NCT00233480. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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.

NCT00233480 phase4completed

A Double-blind Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Single-Center Study to Assess the Impact of Statins on the Autonomic Nervous System and Cardiac Structure/Function in Non-Ischemic Heart Failure

Ran2005Enrolled27Registered outcomes6Posted comparisons1ConditionsHeart Failure, CongestiveArmsAtorvastatin, Placebo
PMID 18433696other papers from this trial
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Treatment with atorvastatin is associated with a better prognosis in chronic heart failure with systolic dysfunction: results from The Daunia Heart Failure Registry.Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2013
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tamara B HorwichUCLA Medical Center, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, CHS BH-307, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
W Robb MacLellan
UCLA Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heart failure (HF) affects approximately five million people in the US and survival at 5 years is only 50% despite advances in medical and device therapy. Statins are of novel therapy for these patients, which may be beneficial in both ischemic and non-ischemic HF. In addition to lipid-lowering and anti-atherosclerotic effects, statins demonstrate many non-lipid or pleiotropic effects that could be beneficial in HF. They may inhibit or reverse myocardial remodeling, inhibit inflammation in HF, improve endothelial function and restore autonomic nervous system balance. Numerous observational studies of HF cohorts have linked statin therapy with significantly improved survival. Small prospective clinical studies of atorvastatin and simvastatin in systolic HF are promising, documenting improved ventricular systolic function and decreased inflammatory biomarkers with statin therapy. Definitive recommendations regarding statin therapy in all HF must await the completion of large scale outcome trials of statins in non-ischemic HF.

Indexed as

AnimalsAtorvastatinCardiovascular AgentsDrug InteractionsHeart FailureHeptanoic AcidsHumansHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsLipoproteins, LDLPyrrolesTreatment OutcomeAtorvastatinCardiovascular AgentsHeptanoic AcidsHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsLipoproteins, LDLPyrroles

Identifiers

PMID18001265
OpenAlexW2012061613

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