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ArticleFrontiers in physiology2012

Polyunsaturated Fatty acids in atrial fibrillation: looking for the proper candidates.

Oscar Salvador-Montañés, Alfonso Gómez-Gallanti, Daniel Garofalo, Sami F Noujaim, Rafael Peinado, David Filgueiras-Rama

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Article in Frontiers in physiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 39% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Dietary interventions in the management of atrial fibrillation.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2024
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  5. Atrial fibrosis underlying atrial fibrillation (Review).International journal of molecular medicine · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Oscar Salvador-MontañésCardiac Electrophysiology Unit, Department of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario la Paz Madrid, Spain.
Alfonso Gómez-Gallanti
Daniel Garofalo
Sami F Noujaim
Rafael Peinado
David Filgueiras-Rama
Hospital Universitario La Paz · ESUniversity of Michigan–Ann Arbor · US

Funding

Structural and molecular basis of drug-induced IKACh reductionK99HL105574 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI NOUJAIM, SAMI FOUAD · 2011 to 2012
$193k
NHLBI NIH HHS K99 HL105574
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia encountered in clinical practice with growing prevalence in developed countries. Several medical and interventional therapies, such as atrial specific drugs and pulmonary vein isolation, have demonstrated prevention of recurrences. However, their suboptimal long-term success and significant rate of secondary effects have led to intensive research in the last decade focused on novel alternative and supplemental therapies. One such candidate is polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). Because of their biological properties, safety, simplicity, and relatively cheap cost, there is a special clinical interest in omega-3 PUFAs as a possible antiarrhythmic agent. Obtained from diets rich in fish, they represent one of the current supplemental therapies. At the cellular level, an increasing body of evidence has shown that n-3 PUFAs exert a variety of effects on cardiac ion channels, membrane dynamic properties, inflammatory cascade, and other targets related to AF prevention. In this article, we review the current basic and clinical evidence pertinent to n-3 PUFAs in AF treatment and prevention. We also discuss controversial outcomes among clinical studies and propose specific subsets of AF patients who will benefit most from n-3 PUFAs.

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atrial fibrillationdrug therapyomega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acidspreventionremodeling

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PMID23015791
PMCPMC3449334
OpenAlexW2139149655

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