Evidence map›Paper›PMID 18376002›Full record

ArticleThe New England journal of medicine2008

Does ENHANCE diminish confidence in lowering LDL or in ezetimibe?

B Greg Brown, Allen J Taylor

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Article in The New England journal of medicine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed
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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

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Ezetimibe therapy: mechanism of action and clinical update.Vascular health and risk management · 2012
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  14. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance parameters of atherosclerotic plaque burden improve discrimination of prior major adverse cardiovascular events.Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance · 2009
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  19. Assessment of new technologies: surrogate endpoints versus outcomes, and the cost of health care.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

B Greg Brown
Allen J Taylor

Funding

AIM HIGH: Niacin Plus Statin to Prevent Vascular EventsU01HL081616 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI PROBSTFIELD, JEFFREY LYNN · 2005 to 2010
$6.0M
NHLBI NIH HHS HL-081616
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Anticholesteremic AgentsAzetidinesCholesterol, HDLCholesterol, LDLDrug Therapy, CombinationEzetimibeHumansHyperlipoproteinemia Type IISimvastatinTreatment OutcomeTriglyceridesTunica IntimaTunica MediaAnticholesteremic AgentsAzetidinesCholesterol, HDLCholesterol, LDLEzetimibeSimvastatinTriglycerides

Identifiers

PMID18376002

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.