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ReviewCurrent cardiology reviews

Heart Failure in Minority Populations - Impediments to Optimal Treatment in Australian Aborigines.

Pupalan Iyngkaran, Nadarajan Kangaharan, Hendrik Zimmet, Margaret Arstall, Rob Minson, Merlin C Thomas, Peter Bergin, John Atherton, Peter MacDonald, David L Hare and 2 more

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Review in Current cardiology reviews. 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
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 22% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

12 authors at 10 institutions in 1 country.

Pupalan IyngkaranCardiologist and Senior Lecturer NT Medical School, Flinders University, Tiwi, NT 0811, Australia. balaniyngkaran@hotmail.com.
Nadarajan Kangaharan
Hendrik Zimmet
Margaret Arstall
Rob Minson
Merlin C Thomas
Peter Bergin
John Atherton
Peter MacDonald
David L Hare
John D Horowitz
Marcus Ilton
Royal Darwin Hospital · AUThe Alfred Hospital · AUBaker Heart and Diabetes Institute · AUBasil Hetzel Institute · AUFlinders Medical Centre · AUFlinders University · AULyell McEwin Hospital · AUUniversity of Melbourne · AUUniversity of Queensland · AUVictor Chang Cardiac Research Institute · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic heart failure (CHF) among Aboriginal/Indigenous Australians is endemic. There are also grave concerns for outcomes once acquired. This point is compounded by a lack of prospective and objective studies to plan care. To capture the essence of the presented topic it is essential to broadly understand Indigenous health. Key words such as 'worsening', 'gaps', 'need to do more', 'poorly studied', or 'future studies should inform' occur frequently in contrast to CHF research for almost all other groups. This narrative styled opinion piece attempts to discuss future directions for CHF care for Indigenous Australians. We provide a synopsis of the problem, highlight the treatment gaps, and define the impediments that present hurdles in optimising CHF care for Indigenous Australians.

Indexed as

AustraliaChronic DiseaseForecastingHeart FailureHumansLife StylePatient Acceptance of Health CareProspective Studies

Identifiers

PMID27280307
PMCPMC5011191
OpenAlexW2410155177

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