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SynthesisThe American journal of cardiology2020

Meta-analysis of Effect of Statins in Patients with COVID-19.

Chia Siang Kow, Syed Shahzad Hasan

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Synthesis in The American journal of cardiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 98 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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98citing papers in PubMed, 10 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

98 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. The Association Between the Use of Statins and Clinical Outcomes in Patients with COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.American journal of cardiovascular drugs : drugs, devices, and other interventions · 2022
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  6. Active prescription of low-dose aspirin during or prior to hospitalization and mortality in COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis of adjusted effect estimates.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2021
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  7. Statin and outcomes of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): A systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression.Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD · 2021 · on this map
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38 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Chia Siang KowSchool of Postgraduate Studies, International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Syed Shahzad HasanDepartment of Pharmacy, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusPandemicsCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors

Identifiers

PMID32891399
PMCPMC7419280

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