Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33011928›Full record

ArticleInternal and emergency medicine2020

Protective role of statins in COVID 19 patients: importance of pharmacokinetic characteristics rather than intensity of action.

Rosario Rossi, Marisa Talarico, Francesca Coppi, Giuseppe Boriani

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Article in Internal and emergency medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
37citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

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

37 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Statins reduce mortality in patients with COVID-19: an updated meta-analysis of 147 824 patients.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2021
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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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rosario RossiCardiology Unit, Policlinico Di Modena Hospital, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via del Pozzo 71, 41124, Modena, Italy. rosario.rossi@unimore.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9065-1808
Marisa TalaricoCardiology Unit, Policlinico Di Modena Hospital, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via del Pozzo 71, 41124, Modena, Italy.
Francesca CoppiCardiology Unit, Policlinico Di Modena Hospital, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via del Pozzo 71, 41124, Modena, Italy.
Giuseppe BorianiCardiology Unit, Policlinico Di Modena Hospital, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via del Pozzo 71, 41124, Modena, Italy.
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AgedAged, 80 and overAnalysis of VarianceCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19FemaleHumansHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsMaleMiddle AgedPandemicsPneumonia, ViralHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors

Identifiers

PMID33011928
PMCPMC7532733
OpenAlexW3089981048

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.