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ArticleCirculation2015

Cardiology Patient Page. Chelation therapy: a new look at an old treatment for heart disease, particularly in diabetics.

Gervasio A Lamas

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Article in Circulation, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Review
  3. EDTA Chelation Therapy for the Treatment of Neurotoxicity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019
    Review
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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

1 author.

Gervasio A LamasFrom Columbia University Division of Cardiology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL. gervasio.lamas@msmc.com.

Funding

Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT)U01AT001156 · NCCIH · MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER (MIAMI BEACH) · PI LAMAS, GERVASIO A · 2002 to 2004
$18.2M
Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT)U01HL092607 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI LAMAS, GERVASIO A · 2007 to 2012
$13.5M
NCCIH NIH HHS U01 AT001156NCCIH NIH HHS U01AT001156NHLBI NIH HHS U01 HL092607NHLBI NIH HHS U01HL092607
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Chelation TherapyMetals, HeavyChelating AgentsClinical Trials as TopicCoronary DiseaseDiabetes ComplicationsEdetic AcidEnvironmental PollutantsHumansInfusions, IntravenousMulticenter Studies as TopicMyocardial InfarctionChelating AgentsEdetic AcidEnvironmental PollutantsMetals, Heavy

Identifiers

PMID26015468
PMCPMC4448121

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