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ArticleEndocrine2021

The benefit of statins in SARS-CoV-2 patients: further metabolic and prospective clinical studies are needed.

Maurizio Bifulco, Michele Ciccarelli, Dario Bruzzese, Andrea Dipasquale, Andrea G Lania, Gherardo Mazziotti, Patrizia Gazzerro

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Article in Endocrine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. 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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  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. 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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  12. Metabolic Reprogramming in COVID-19.International journal of molecular sciences · 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

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Maurizio BifulcoDepartment of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Naples "Federico II", 80131, Naples, Italy. maubiful@unina.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1771-4531
Michele CiccarelliPneumology Unit, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center IRCCS, 20089, Rozzano, Milan, Italy.
Dario BruzzeseDepartment of Public Health, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.
Andrea DipasqualePneumology Unit, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center IRCCS, 20089, Rozzano, Milan, Italy.
Andrea G LaniaEndocrinology, Diabetology and Medical Andrology Unit, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, IRCCS, 20089, Rozzano, Milan, Italy.
Gherardo MazziottiEndocrinology, Diabetology and Medical Andrology Unit, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, IRCCS, 20089, Rozzano, Milan, Italy.
Patrizia GazzerroDepartment of Pharmacy, University of Salerno, 84084, Fisciano (SA), Italy. pgazzerro@unisa.it.
Humanitas University · ITUniversity of Naples Federico II · ITUniversity of Salerno · IT

Funding

Regione Campania POR Campania FESR 2014-2020 - ASSE I 2020
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19 Drug TreatmentAgedAged, 80 and overCOVID-19FemaleHospital MortalityHumansHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsMaleMiddle AgedRetrospective StudiesTreatment OutcomeHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors

Identifiers

PMID33219496
PMCPMC7678774
OpenAlexW3105080096

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Registered trials

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