Evidence map›Paper›PMID 35502380›Full record

ArticleQuantitative imaging in medicine and surgery2022

Relationship between carotid artery stiffness and total serum homocysteine in coronary slow flow phenomenon: a high-resolution echo-tracking study.

Song Yang, Wen He, Yi Li, Fu-Min Wang, Lu Yin, Li-Juan Du

Open access · diamondAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 24% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Song YangDepartment of Ultrasonography, Affiliated to Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Wen HeDepartment of Ultrasonography, Affiliated to Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Yi LiDepartment of Ultrasonography, Affiliated to Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Fu-Min WangDepartment of Ultrasonography, Affiliated to Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Lu YinDepartment of Ultrasonography, Affiliated to Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Li-Juan DuDepartment of Ultrasonography, Affiliated to Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Beijing Tian Tan Hospital · CNCapital Medical University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Coronary slow flow phenomenon (CSFP) is not uncommon in conventional coronary angiography. A disorder of serum homocysteine (tHcy) metabolism may play a role in the pathogenesis of slow coronary flow. Moreover, elevated tHcy concentration is closely associated with atherosclerosis. We aimed to evaluate the relationship between carotid artery stiffness and serum tHcy levels in patients with CSFP. Methods: This was a case-control study. The study population comprised 146 patients with newly diagnosed stable angina, including 73 patients with CSFP and 73 patients with normal coronary flow. All participants underwent conventional coronary angiography, carotid ultrasonography, and biochemical examination. Results: The carotid artery stiffness parameters of β index (β), pressure-strain elastic modulus (Ep), and local pulse wave velocity (PWV) in the CSFP group were significantly higher than those in the control group (β: 10.75±2.16 Conclusions: Our data showed that serum tHcy levels were elevated in patients with CSFP compared with the control group. Carotid artery stiffness parameters were correlated with tHcy. The best predictors of CSFP were left β index and right β index. These findings may contribute to a better understanding of systemic vascular disorders in patients with coronary slow flow, rather than simply attributing such disorders to a single and isolated lesion of the epicardial coronary artery.

Indexed as

carotid artery stiffnesscoronary slow flow phenomenon (CSFP)echo tracking technologytotal serum homocysteineUltrasonography

Identifiers

PMID35502380
PMCPMC9014133
OpenAlexW4225394218

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.