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ReviewFrontiers in physiology2017

Have the Findings from Clinical Risk Prediction and Trials Any Key Messages for Safety Pharmacology?

Jem D Lane, Andrew Tinker

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Review in Frontiers in physiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. AnFrontiers in pharmacology · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jem D LaneWilliam Harvey Heart Centre, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom.
Andrew TinkerWilliam Harvey Heart Centre, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom.

Funding

British Heart Foundation FS/12/11/29289British Heart Foundation RG/15/15/31742
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anti-arrhythmic drugs are a mainstay in the management of symptoms related to arrhythmias, and are adjuncts in prevention and treatment of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias. However, they also have the potential for pro-arrhythmia and thus the prediction of arrhythmia predisposition and drug response are critical issues. Clinical trials are the latter stages in the safety testing and efficacy process prior to market release, and as such serve as a critical safeguard. In this review, we look at some of the lessons to be learned from approaches to arrhythmia prediction in patients, clinical trials of drugs used in the treatment of arrhythmias, and the implications for the design of pre-clinical safety pharmacology testing.

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anti-arrhythmia agentsarrhythmiascardiaccardiac ion channelslong QTtorsades de pointes

Identifiers

PMID29163223
PMCPMC5681497

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