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ReviewMethodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal

Timing and Targeting of Treatment in Left Ventricular Hypertrophy.

Deokhwa Nam, Erin L Reineke

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Review in Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

2 authors.

Deokhwa NamHouston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas.
Erin L ReinekeHouston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In most clinical cases, left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) occurs over time from persistent cardiac stress. At the molecular level, this results in both transient and long-term changes to metabolic, sarcomeric, ion handling, and stress signaling pathways. Although this is initially an adaptive change, the mechanisms underlying LVH eventually lead to maladaptive changes including fibrosis, decreased cardiac function, and failure. Understanding the regulators of long-term changes, which are largely driven by transcriptional remodeling, is a crucial step in identifying novel therapeutic targets for preventing the downstream negative effects of LVH and treatments that could reverse or prevent it. The development of effective therapeutics, however, will require a critical understanding of what to target, how to modify important pathways, and how to identify the stage of pathology in which a specific treatment should be used.

Indexed as

Time-to-TreatmentAnimalsCardiovascular AgentsDisease ProgressionDrug Administration ScheduleHumansHypertrophy, Left VentricularMyocardiumSignal TransductionTime FactorsTranscription, GeneticTreatment OutcomeVentricular Function, LeftVentricular RemodelingCardiovascular Agentsgene regulationleft ventricular hypertrophymolecular cardiac controltranscription

Identifiers

PMID28413576
PMCPMC5385802

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