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ArticleDrug safety2020

Should Patients Receiving ACE Inhibitors or Angiotensin Receptor Blockers be Switched to Other Antihypertensive Drugs to Prevent or Improve Prognosis of Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)?

Gianluca Trifirò, Salvatore Crisafulli, Giuseppe Andò, Giorgio Racagni, Filippo Drago, Italian Society of Pharmacology

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Article in Drug safety, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 2 of them syntheses 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Gianluca TrifiròDepartment of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphofunctional Imaging, University of Messina, Messina, Italy. trifirog@unime.it.
Salvatore CrisafulliDepartment of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphofunctional Imaging, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
Giuseppe AndòDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
Giorgio RacagniDepartment of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Filippo DragoDepartment of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, Clinical Pharmacology Unit of the University Hospital, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Italian Society of Pharmacology

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CoronavirusDiabetes MellitusHypertensionAngiotensin-Converting Enzyme InhibitorsAngiotensin Receptor AntagonistsAntihypertensive AgentsBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralPrognosisSARS-CoV-2Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme InhibitorsAngiotensin Receptor AntagonistsAntihypertensive Agents

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PMID32303915
PMCPMC7164333

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