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SynthesisEuropean journal of heart failure2018

Globalization of heart failure clinical trials: a systematic review of 305 trials conducted over 16 years.

Muthiah Vaduganathan, Ayman Samman Tahhan, Stephen J Greene, Maureen Okafor, Sonali Kumar, Javed Butler

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Synthesis in European journal of heart failure, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 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

12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Representativeness in randomised clinical trials supporting acute coronary syndrome guidelines.European heart journal. Quality of care & clinical outcomes · 2023
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  2. Advancing Health Equity in the Cardiovascular Device Life Cycle.Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes · 2025
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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

6 authors.

Muthiah VaduganathanBrigham and Women's Hospital Heart & Vascular Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Ayman Samman TahhanDivision of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Stephen J GreeneDuke Clinical Research Institute and Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Maureen OkaforDepartment of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Sonali KumarDepartment of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Javed ButlerDivision of Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.

Funding

TRAINING PROGRAM IN CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCHT32HL007604 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI MARK W FEINBERG · 1985 to 2026
$19.0M
Postdoctoral Training in Cardiovascular Clinical ResearchT32HL069749 · NHLBI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI MARK, DANIEL B · 2003 to 2023
$6.7M
The role of the renin-angiotensin-endothelial pathway in ADRF1AG051633 · NIA · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI HAJJAR, IHAB M, QUYYUMI, ARSHED A · 2015 to 2017
$6.0M
NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007604NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL069749NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG051633
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Clinical Trials as TopicDisease ManagementGlobal HealthHeart FailureHumansMorbidity

Identifiers

PMID29314445
PMCPMC6676479

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