ReviewCureus2021
The Effect of Statin Therapy on Inflammatory Biomarkers: A Systematic Review.
Review in Cureus, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
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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.
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.
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Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Statins and thyroid eye disease (TED): a systematic review.Endocrine · 2024Pooled it
- Explainable machine-learning model for coronary artery disease diagnosis in non-AMI patients: integrating inflammatory and traditional risk factors.Open heart · 2026Article
- Impact of Statin Therapy on Clinical Outcomes of Patients Hospitalised with Skin and Soft Tissue Infections.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Statins-Beyond Their Use in Hypercholesterolemia: Focus on the Pediatric Population.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Targeting inflammation in atherosclerosis: overview, strategy and directions.EuroIntervention : journal of EuroPCR in collaboration with the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2024Review
- Effect of Statins on the Inflammatory Markers in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease.Journal of laboratory physicians · 2023Article
- Current Medical Therapy and Revascularization in Peripheral Artery Disease of the Lower Limbs: Impacts on Subclinical Chronic Inflammation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Colchicine in Athero-Thrombosis: Molecular Mechanisms and Clinical Evidence.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
9 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors are commonly used drugs in the management of elevated lipid levels and cardiovascular disease. In cardiovascular diseases, among other common chronic conditions, inflammatory biomarkers are used to monitor disease progression and the risk of recurrent adverse events. We explored whether or not there was a positive effect on these biomarkers using HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors. The systematic review was conducted by gathering relevant papers mainly from three databases, identified through a generated Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) strategy. Identification of papers was subsequently followed by applying a selected inclusion and exclusion criteria to narrow the papers chosen for review. Post the application of stipulated criteria, 12 papers remained. They were subsequently assessed for risk of bias using a Cochrane risk analysis tool, identifying most as having some concerns of bias or low risk of bias. We found that HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors exhibit both a lipid-lowering effect addition to an anti-inflammatory effect.
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