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ArticlePLoS medicine2018

Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: The past, present, and future of blood pressure- and cholesterol-lowering treatments.

Maarten J G Leening, M Arfan Ikram

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Article in PLoS medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Maarten J G LeeningDepartment of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-4143-4839
M Arfan IkramDepartment of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-0372-8585

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In a Perspective, M. Afran Ikram and Maarten Leening discuss the evolving approaches to determining cardiovascular risk.

Indexed as

Blood PressureCardiovascular DiseasesCholesterolHumansPrimary PreventionRisk FactorsCholesterol

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PMID29558473
PMCPMC5860691

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