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ReviewCurrent cardiology reports2023

Fibrates, Hypertriglyceridemia, and CVD Risk: Where Do We Stand After the PROMINENT Trial for Triglyceride Lowering?

Marius I Chukwurah, Michael Miller

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Review in Current cardiology reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Marius I ChukwurahDepartment of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Michael MillerDepartment of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. michael.miller@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1679-2095
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewTo evaluate recent clinical trials focusing on patients with hypertriglyceridemia. RECENT

findingsRandomized clinical trials have recently been undertaken in hypertriglyceridemic patients to determine whether effective reductions in triglycerides would improve cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes. However, the fibric acid derivative, pemafibrate, failed to reduce cardiovascular events despite significant reductions (~ 25-35%) in triglyceride levels and despite background statin therapy. In contrast, icosapent ethyl, a highly purified omega-3 fatty acid was previously shown to reduce CVD events in hypertriglyceridemic patients, despite more modest reductions (~ 20%) in triglyceride levels in statin treated patients. The divergent results obtained in patients with hypertriglyceridemia (HTG), a group at particularly high risk of CVD, especially when coupled with other risk factors, indicates that triglyceride lowering in of itself is insufficient to offset CVD risk. Rather, the effectiveness of therapy in this high-risk cohort may be the result of the suppression of the inherent atherogenic properties associated with HTG.

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Cardiovascular DiseasesHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsHyperlipidemiasHypertriglyceridemiaFibric AcidsHumansTriglyceridesFibric AcidsHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsTriglyceridesClinical trialsFibratesHypertriglyceridemiaOmega-3 fatty acidsPROMINENTREDUCE-IT

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PMID37505399
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