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ArticleHeart (British Cardiac Society)2016

Cochrane corner: early statin therapy in acute coronary syndromes--what is the clinical benefit?

Alain Nordmann, Gregory Schwartz, Noah Vale, Heiner C Bucher, Matthias Briel

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Article in Heart (British Cardiac Society), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Rethinking Statin Dosage in Coronary Disease.Pharmacology research & perspectives · 2026
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  5. The pharmacodynamic and clinical trial evidence for statin dose.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2018
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  6. When less is more - efficacy with less toxicity at the ED50.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Alain NordmannDepartment of Clinical Research, Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Gregory SchwartzVA Medical Center and University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Noah ValePrivate Practice in Family Medicine, Toronto, Canada.
Heiner C BucherDepartment of Clinical Research, Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Matthias BrielDepartment of Clinical Research, Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Angina, UnstableAnticholesteremic AgentsFemaleHeptanoic AcidsHumansHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsMaleMyocardial InfarctionPyrrolesAnticholesteremic AgentsHeptanoic AcidsHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsPyrroles

Identifiers

PMID26908101

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