Coronary Artery Calcification: A Canary in the Cognitive Coalmine.

Walter Swardfager, Sandra E Black

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Article in Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed

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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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

Coronary Artery Calcium and Cognitive Decline in the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2023
Trial
Association between coronary artery calcification and cognitive function in a Chinese community-based population.Journal of geriatric cardiology : JGC · 2021
Article
The use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors vs. angiotensin receptor blockers and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease: the importance of blood-brain barrier penetration and APOE ε4 carrier status.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2021
Article
Greater progression of coronary artery calcification is associated with clinically relevant cognitive impairment in type 1 diabetes.Atherosclerosis · 2019
Article
The effect of white matter hyperintensities on verbal memory: Mediation by temporal lobe atrophy.Neurology · 2018
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Comment on
Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease and Death, Dementia, and Coronary Heart Disease in Patients 80+ Years.2016

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Walter SwardfagerLC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Unit, Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Cardiac Rehabilitation Program, University Health Network Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Sandra E BlackLC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Unit, Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Medicine (Neurology), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre & University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: sandra.black@sunnybrook.ca.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Coronary Artery DiseaseDementiaFemaleHumansMaleagingAlzheimer's diseasecalciumcoronary arterydementiamortalityvascular risk factors

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PMID26940920

DOI10.1016/j.jacc.2016.01.007

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