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ReviewEuropean cardiology2014

Diabetes Management - Lowering Cardiovascular Risk.

Dan Gaiţă, Svetlana Moşteoru, Laurence Sperling

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Review in European cardiology, 2014. 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

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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Antidiabetic Drug Prescription Pattern in Hospitalized Older Patients with Diabetes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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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

3 authors.

Dan GaiţăVictor Babeş University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timişoara, Institute for Cardiovascular Medicine Timişoara, Cardiology Department.
Svetlana MoşteoruVictor Babeş University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timişoara, Institute for Cardiovascular Medicine Timişoara, Cardiology Department.
Laurence SperlingEmory University School of Medicine, Heart Disease Prevention Center, Atlanta, US.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common diseases to plague the present day. Sixty percent of mortality in diabetic patients is caused by coronary artery disease. Numerous studies have shown that improving glycaemic control helps manage microvascular complications. On the other hand, some studies have shed light on the fact that a too tight glycaemic control can have adverse effects, especially on patients with high cardiovascular risk. Thus 'the lower the better' attitude should be exchanged for 'the earliest the best' attitude. A multidisciplinary approach should therefore be undertaken in order to achieve a proper management of the cardiovascular risk for diabetic patients. This includes using hypoglycaemic agents, antihypertensive medication and statins to balance the myriad of cardiovascular risk factors.

Indexed as

cardiovascular riskDiabetes mellitusglycaemic controlmacrovascular complicationsmicrovascular complicationsrisk factors

Identifiers

PMID30310478
PMCPMC6159407

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