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ArticleJournal of the American Heart Association2021

Impact of Obesity on Heart Transplantation Outcomes.

Fouad Chouairi, Aidan Milner, Sounok Sen, Avirup Guha, James Stewart, Ania M Jastreboff, Makoto Mori, Katherine A Clark, P Elliott Miller, Michael A Fuery and 9 more

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Article in Journal of the American Heart Association, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
27citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Efficacy and Safety of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors in Heart Transplant Recipients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analyses.American journal of cardiovascular drugs : drugs, devices, and other interventions · 2026
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  8. Utilization of organs following implementation of the 2020 United States Public Health Service guideline recommendations.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2026
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  10. The obese transplant organ recipient: experimental and clinical evidence for tailored immunosuppression.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2026
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  20. Who is the Candidate? The Heart Transplant Evaluation Process.Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal · 2025
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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

19 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Fouad ChouairiDuke University Department of Internal Medicine Durham NC.ORCID 0000-0001-8715-6718
Aidan MilnerSection of Cardiovascular Medicine Yale School of Medicine New Haven CT.ORCID 0000-0003-4183-2586
Sounok SenSection of Cardiovascular Medicine Yale School of Medicine New Haven CT.
Avirup GuhaCase Western Reserve University School of Medicine Columbus OH.ORCID 0000-0003-0253-1174
James StewartDivision of Cardiac Surgery Yale School of Medicine New Haven CT.ORCID 0000-0001-6753-5753
Ania M JastreboffSection of Endocrinology & Metabolism Department of Internal Medicine Yale School of Medicine New Haven CT.ORCID 0000-0003-1446-0991
Makoto MoriDivision of Cardiac Surgery Yale School of Medicine New Haven CT.ORCID 0000-0002-2367-8354
Katherine A ClarkSection of Cardiovascular Medicine Yale School of Medicine New Haven CT.
P Elliott MillerSection of Cardiovascular Medicine Yale School of Medicine New Haven CT.ORCID 0000-0002-0595-1492
Michael A FuerySection of Cardiovascular Medicine Yale School of Medicine New Haven CT.ORCID 0000-0001-9166-4838
Joseph G RogersDivision of Cardiology Duke University Medical Center Durham NC.
Andrew NotarianniDepartment of Anesthesiology Yale School of Medicine New Haven CT.ORCID 0000-0002-7347-1933
Daniel JacobySection of Cardiovascular Medicine Yale School of Medicine New Haven CT.ORCID 0000-0002-9182-275X
Christopher MaulionSection of Cardiovascular Medicine Yale School of Medicine New Haven CT.ORCID 0000-0002-2510-4266
Muhammad AnwerDivision of Cardiac Surgery Yale School of Medicine New Haven CT.
Arnar GeirssonDivision of Cardiac Surgery Yale School of Medicine New Haven CT.ORCID 0000-0002-8943-9962
Nihar R DesaiSection of Cardiovascular Medicine Yale School of Medicine New Haven CT.ORCID 0000-0003-2384-2545
Tariq AhmadSection of Cardiovascular Medicine Yale School of Medicine New Haven CT.
Clancy W MullanDivision of Cardiac Surgery Yale School of Medicine New Haven CT.ORCID 0000-0002-2774-251X
Yale University · USCase Western Reserve University · USDuke Medical Center · USDuke University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background Patients with obesity and advanced heart failure face unique challenges on the path to heart transplantation. There are limited data on waitlist and transplantation outcomes in this population. We aimed to evaluate the impact of obesity on heart transplantation outcomes, and to investigate the effects of the new organ procurement and transplantation network allocation system in this population. Methods and Results This cohort study of adult patients listed for heart transplant used the United Network for Organ Sharing database from January 2006 to June 2020. Patients were stratified by body mass index (BMI) (18.5-24.9, 25-29.9, 30-34.9, 35-39.9, and 40-55 kg/m

Indexed as

Heart TransplantationObesityAdultCohort StudiesHumansRisk AssessmentTreatment OutcomeWaiting Listsbody mass indexheart transplantationobesityoutcomes researchUnited Network for Organ Sharing

Identifiers

PMID34854316
PMCPMC9075353
OpenAlexW3215720337

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