Evidence map›Paper›PMID 19158117›Full record

ArticleEuropean heart journal2009

Controversial role of plant sterol esters in the management of hypercholesterolaemia.

Oliver Weingärtner, Michael Böhm, Ulrich Laufs

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Article in European heart journal, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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29citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  12. Phytosterols and Cardiovascular Disease.Current atherosclerosis reports · 2021
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  20. Plant sterol enriched functional food and atherosclerosis.British journal of pharmacology · 2017
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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

3 authors.

Oliver WeingärtnerKlinik für Innere Medizin III, Abteilung für Kardiologie, Angiologie und internistische Intensivmedizin, Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, Homburg/Saar, Germany. oweingartner@aol.com
Michael Böhm
Ulrich Laufs

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Food, FortifiedCardiovascular DiseasesCholesterol, LDLDietary FatsDietary SupplementsFemaleHumansHypercholesterolemiaLife StyleMaleNonprescription DrugsPhytosterolsPhytotherapyPractice Guidelines as TopicCholesterol, LDLDietary FatsNonprescription DrugsPhytosterols

Identifiers

PMID19158117
PMCPMC2642922

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