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ReviewCurrent rheumatology reports2018

Cardiovascular Safety of Biologics and JAK Inhibitors in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Eun Ha Kang, Katherine P Liao, Seoyoung C Kim

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Review in Current rheumatology reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Eun Ha KangDivision of Rheumatology Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea.
Katherine P LiaoDivision of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Seoyoung C KimDivision of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. sykim@bwh.harvard.edu.
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USSeoul National University Bundang Hospital · KR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewIncreased cardiovascular (CV) risk and associated mortality in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are not fully explained by traditional CV risk factors. This review discusses the epidemiology and mechanisms of increased CV risk in RA and treatment effects on CV risk focusing on biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and JAK inhibitors. RECENT

findingsIntermediary metabolic changes by inflammatory cytokines are observed in body composition, lipid profile, and insulin sensitivity of RA patients, leading to accelerated atherosclerosis and increased CV risk. Successful treatment with DMARDs has shown beneficial effects on these metabolic changes and ultimately CV outcomes, in proportion to the treatment efficacy in general but also with drug-specific mechanisms. Recent data provide further information on comparative CV safety between biologic DMARDs or JAK inhibitors as well as their safety signals for non-atherosclerotic CV events. CV benefits or safety signals associated with DMARD treatments can differ despite similar drug efficacy against RA, suggesting that both anti-inflammatory and drug-specific mechanisms are involved in altering CV risk.

Indexed as

Antirheumatic AgentsArthritis, RheumatoidBiological ProductsBody CompositionCardiovascular DiseasesHumansInsulin ResistanceJanus Kinase InhibitorsLipidsRisk FactorsAntirheumatic AgentsBiological ProductsJanus Kinase InhibitorsLipidsBiologicCardiovascularJAK inhibitorRheumatoid arthritis

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PMID29846814
OpenAlexW2805912431

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