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ReviewHeart failure reviews2017

A comprehensive review of the bioenergetics of fatty acid and glucose metabolism in the healthy and failing heart in nondiabetic condition.

Ashish Gupta, Brian Houston

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Review in Heart failure reviews, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. One Syndrome, Many Faces: A Unified Perspective on Heart Failure Phenotypes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  16. Mitochondria in Pathological Cardiac Remodeling.Current opinion in physiology · 2022
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  18. CardiacHeart failure reviews · 2021
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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 at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ashish GuptaCentre of Biomedical Research, SGPGIMS Campus, Raebareli Road, Lucknow, UP, 226014, India. ashishg24@yahoo.co.in.
Brian HoustonDivision of Cardiology, The Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
Centre of Biomedical Research · INMedical University of South Carolina · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The function of the heart is defined by its ability to deliver adequate cardiac output to meet the requirements of the body both at rest and with exertion. To fill this role, the heart demonstrates an impressive capacity to tightly regulate energy generation and consumption. Energy production and transfer within cardiac myocytes primarily relies on the process of oxidative phosphorylation. In the failing heart, there is an imbalance between the work of the cardiac system and the energy required to generate this work. This presence of this mismatch has given rise to the concept known as the energy starvation theory. This concept encapsulates observations such as perturbed substrate consumption, insufficient energy transfer and ingestion, reduced substrate and oxygen availability, and diminished energy production in the failing heart. Diminished available cellular energy may further result from a reduction in the biosynthesis of mitochondria and their protein synthesis and from global cellular architectural disarray. In essence, the energy starvation theory posits that cardiac pump function declines due to a reduction in oxygen and substrate availability, and thus leads to a total body starvation of systemic energy. This novel cognitive framework has led to encouraging new directions in a "metabolic therapeutic approach" for the failing heart.

Indexed as

Energy MetabolismFatty AcidsGlucoseHeart FailureHumansMyocytes, CardiacFatty AcidsGlucoseBioenergeticsCardiac myocyte architectureCreatine kinaseEnergy metabolismHeart failureMitochondria architecture

Identifiers

PMID28536966
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