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ReviewCurrent heart failure reports2013

Cardiac lipotoxicity: molecular pathways and therapeutic implications.

Konstantinos Drosatos, P Christian Schulze

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Review in Current heart failure reports, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 116 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
116citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
7.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

116 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 209 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Biomarkers of Cardiac Metabolic Flexibility in Health, HFrEF and HFpEF.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  14. Ceramide as a Biomarker for HFpEF in Women: Menopause, Aging, and Pregnancy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  15. Imaging of metabolic dysfunction in genetic cardiomyopathies.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2025
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  19. Lipotoxicity: A New Perspective in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2025
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56 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Konstantinos DrosatosDivision of Preventive Medicine and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, 630 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA. kd2277@columbia.edu
P Christian Schulze
Columbia University · USColumbia University Irving Medical Center · US

Funding

Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Metabolism and Proteolysis in Heart FailureK23HL095742 · NHLBI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI SCHULZE, P. CHRISTIAN · 2009 to 2013
$677k
Mechanisms of Reduced Fatty Acid Oxidation and Cardiac Dysfunction in SepsisK99HL112853 · NHLBI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI DROSATOS, KONSTANTINOS · 2012 to 2013
$268k
NHLBI NIH HHS 1K99HL112853-01NHLBI NIH HHS K23 HL095742NHLBI NIH HHS K23HL24534NHLBI NIH HHS K99 HL112853
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diabetes and obesity are both associated with lipotoxic cardiomyopathy exclusive of coronary artery disease and hypertension. Lipotoxicities have become a public health concern and are responsible for a significant portion of clinical cardiac disease. These abnormalities may be the result of a toxic metabolic shift to more fatty acid and less glucose oxidation with concomitant accumulation of toxic lipids. Lipids can directly alter cellular structures and activate downstream pathways leading to toxicity. Recent data have implicated fatty acids and fatty acyl coenzyme A, diacylglycerol, and ceramide in cellular lipotoxicity, which may be caused by apoptosis, defective insulin signaling, endoplasmic reticulum stress, activation of protein kinase C, MAPK activation, or modulation of PPARs.

Indexed as

ApoptosisCardiomyopathiesDiabetes ComplicationsFatty AcidsHumansLipid MetabolismObesityOxidation-ReductionFatty Acids

Identifiers

PMID23508767
PMCPMC3647019
OpenAlexW2026199993

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Registered trials

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