Evidence map›Paper›PMID 18499582›Full record

ArticleThe New England journal of medicine2008

A PCSK9 missense variant associated with a reduced risk of early-onset myocardial infarction.

Sekar Kathiresan, Myocardial Infarction Genetics Consortium

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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 76 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

76 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sekar Kathiresan
Myocardial Infarction Genetics Consortium

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Mutation, MissenseAdultAge of OnsetCholesterol, LDLFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedMyocardial InfarctionProprotein Convertase 9Proprotein ConvertasesRiskSerine EndopeptidasesCholesterol, LDLPCSK9 protein, humanProprotein Convertase 9Proprotein ConvertasesSerine Endopeptidases

Identifiers

PMID18499582

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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