Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28322816›Full record

ArticleLancet (London, England)2017

Safety and efficacy of statins - Authors' reply.

Rory Collins, Jane Armitage, Colin Baigent, George Davey Smith, Liam Smeeth

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Article in Lancet (London, England), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited 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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Rory CollinsClinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit and MRC Population Health Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Electronic address: rory.collins@ndph.ox.ac.uk.
Jane ArmitageClinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit and MRC Population Health Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Colin BaigentClinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit and MRC Population Health Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
George Davey SmithMRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Liam SmeethDepartment of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, UK.

Funding

British Heart Foundation SP/08/010/25939British Heart Foundation SP/14/3/31114Medical Research Council MC_U137686853
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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PMID28322816

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