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ReviewVascular health and risk management2020

Spotlight on Icosapent Ethyl for Cardiovascular Risk Reduction: Evidence to Date.

Xiaoming Jia, Stephanie Koh, Mahmoud Al Rifai, Roger S Blumenthal, Salim S Virani

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Review in Vascular health and risk management, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

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

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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

5 authors.

Xiaoming Jia *Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Stephanie Koh *Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Mahmoud Al RifaiSection of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6933-790X
Roger S BlumenthalThe Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Salim S ViraniSection of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9541-6954

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Icosapent ethyl is a highly purified formulation of eicosapentaenoic acid, a type of omega-3 fatty acid contained in fish oil. While omega-3 fatty acids have long been thought to have cardioprotective benefits, the Reduction of Cardiovascular Events with EPA-Intervention Trial (REDUCE-IT) has helped to establish icosapent ethyl as an evidence-based therapy for risk reduction of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). REDUCE-IT, however, was by no means an overnight success story. Close examination of the evidence shows that the trial was a culmination of many lessons learned from previous studies. The purpose of this manuscript is to review contemporary evidence of icosapent ethyl in ASCVD risk reduction and the clinical implication of this promising therapy.

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Dietary SupplementsAnimalsCardiovascular DiseasesEicosapentaenoic AcidEvidence-Based MedicineHumansProtective FactorsRisk AssessmentRisk FactorsEicosapentaenoic Acideicosapentaenoic acid ethyl estercardiovascular outcomeeicosapentaneoic acidicosapent ethylomega-3 fatty acids

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PMID32021223
PMCPMC6957107

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