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ReviewNature reviews. Rheumatology2011

Cardiovascular safety of biologic therapies for the treatment of RA.

Jeffrey D Greenberg, Victoria Furer, Michael E Farkouh

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Review in Nature reviews. Rheumatology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jeffrey D GreenbergDepartment of Rheumatology, New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases, 301 East 17th Street, Suite 1410, New York, NY 10003, USA. jeffrey.greenberg@ nyumc.org
Victoria Furer
Michael E Farkouh
New York University Langone Orthopedic Hospital · USIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · US

Funding

Prognostic Genetic Biomarkers in Rheumatoid ArthritisK23AR054412 · NIAMS · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI GREENBERG, JEFFREY D · 2007 to 2011
$665k
NIAMS NIH HHS K23AR054412
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiovascular disease represents a major source of extra-articular comorbidity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). A combination of traditional cardiovascular risk factors and RA-related factors accounts for the excess risk in RA. Among RA-related factors, chronic systemic inflammation has been implicated in the pathogenesis and progression of atherosclerosis. A growing body of evidence--mainly derived from observational databases and registries--suggests that specific RA therapies, including methotrexate and anti-TNF biologic agents, can reduce the risk of future cardiovascular events in patients with RA. The cardiovascular profile of other biologic therapies for the treatment of RA has not been adequately studied, including of investigational drugs that improve systemic inflammation but alter traditional cardiovascular risk factors. In the absence of large clinical trials adequately powered to detect differences in cardiovascular events between biologic drugs in RA, deriving firm conclusions on cardiovascular safety is challenging. Nevertheless, observational research using large registries has emerged as a promising approach to study the cardiovascular risk of emerging RA biologic therapies.

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Antirheumatic AgentsArthritis, RheumatoidBiological ProductsCardiovascular DiseasesComorbidityDatabases, FactualHumansMethotrexateRegistriesRisk FactorsTumor Necrosis Factor-alphaAntirheumatic AgentsBiological ProductsMethotrexateTumor Necrosis Factor-alpha

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PMID22083220
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