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ReviewArquivos brasileiros de cardiologia2021

Crossroads between Estrogen Loss, Obesity, and Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.

Allan Kardec Nogueira de Alencar, Hao Wang, Gláucia Maria Moraes de Oliveira, Xuming Sun, Gisele Zapata-Sudo, Leanne Groban

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In one paragraph

Review in Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 33% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Atherosclerotic features in patients with heart failure.Archives of medical science : AMS · 2025
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Review
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

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Allan Kardec Nogueira de AlencarFaculdade de Medicina de Petrópolis, Petrópolis, RJ - Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3072-6270
Hao WangWake Forest School of Medicine - Departments of Anesthesiology, Winston-Salem, North Carolina - Estados Unidos da América.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1537-661X
Gláucia Maria Moraes de OliveiraUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Departamento de Clínica Médica, Faculdade de Medicina, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0737-6188
Xuming SunWake Forest School of Medicine - Departments of Anesthesiology, Winston-Salem, North Carolina - Estados Unidos da América.
Gisele Zapata-SudoUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9066-5027
Leanne GrobanWake Forest School of Medicine - Departments of Anesthesiology, Winston-Salem, North Carolina - Estados Unidos da América.
Wake Forest University · USUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro · BRFaculdade de Medicina de Petrópolis · BR

Funding

Interplay Between Estrogen, GPR30 and Chymase/RAS in Diastolic FunctionR01AG033727 · NIA · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI GROBAN, LEANNE · 2009 to 2017
$2.8M
Effects of cell-based hormone therapy on LV diastolic dysfunction and hypertrophy progression after mid-life estrogen lossR21AG061588 · NIA · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI GROBAN, LEANNE, OPARA, EMMANUEL C. · 2019 to 2020
$436k
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG033727NIA NIH HHS R21 AG061588
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The prevalence of obesity and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) increases significantly in postmenopausal women. Although obesity is a risk factor for left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD), the mechanisms that link the cessation of ovarian hormone production, and particularly estrogens, to the development of obesity, LVDD, and HFpEF in aging females are unclear. Clinical, and epidemiologic studies show that postmenopausal women with abdominal obesity (defined by waist circumference) are at greater risk for developing HFpEF than men or women without abdominal obesity. The study presents a review of clinical data that support a mechanistic link between estrogen loss plus obesity and left ventricular remodeling with LVDD. It also seeks to discuss potential cell and molecular mechanisms for estrogen-mediated protection against adverse adipocyte cell types, tissue depots, function, and metabolism that may contribute to LVDD and HFpEF.

Indexed as

Heart FailureVentricular Dysfunction, LeftEstrogensFemaleHumansMaleObesity, AbdominalStroke VolumeVentricular Function, LeftEstrogens

Identifiers

PMID34644788
PMCPMC8757160
OpenAlexW3199360396

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Registered trials

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