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Treating Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension With Sotatercept: A Meta-Analysis.

Naseer Uddin, Muhammad Talal Ashraf, Stafford Jude Sam, Affan Sohail, Syed Muhammad Ismail, Antonella Paladini, Abdul Ahad Syed, Tamam Mohamad, Giustino Varrassi, Satish Kumar and 1 more

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Review in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2026
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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

11 authors.

Naseer UddinDepartment of Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Civil Hospital Karachi, Karachi, PAK.
Muhammad Talal AshrafDepartment of Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Civil Hospital Karachi, Karachi, PAK.
Stafford Jude SamDepartment of Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Civil Hospital Karachi, Karachi, PAK.
Affan SohailDepartment of Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Civil Hospital Karachi, Karachi, PAK.
Syed Muhammad IsmailDepartment of Internal Medicine/Cardiology, Dow University of Health Sciences, Civil Hospital Karachi, Karachi, PAK.
Antonella PaladiniDepartment of MESVA, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, ITA.
Abdul Ahad SyedDepartment of Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Civil Hospital Karachi, Karachi, PAK.
Tamam MohamadDepartment of Cardiovascular Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA.
Giustino VarrassiDepartment of Pain Medicine, Paolo Procacci Foundation, Rome, ITA.
Satish KumarDepartment of Medicine, Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical College, Karachi, PAK.
Mahima KhatriDepartment of Internal Medicine/Cardiology, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, PAK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) results from proliferative remodeling and narrowing of the pulmonary vasculature. Sotatercept is a first-in-class fusion protein that has recently garnered attention for showing improvements in patients with PAH. This meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) assesses the overall efficacy of Sotatercept in treating PAH. PubMed, Google Scholar, and Clinicaltrials.gov were searched using relevant keywords and MeSH terms. Studies were included if RCTs compared Sotatercept with placebo in patients with PAH. Our comprehensive literature search yielded 3,127 results, of which two RCTs with 429 patients were included in this meta-analysis. The patients were on background therapy for PAH. Results of the meta-analysis show that when compared with placebo, Sotatercept improved the six-minute walk distance (mean difference [MD] 34.99; 95% confidence interval [CI] 19.02-50.95;

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drug therapymeta-analysispulmonary arterial hypertensionpulmonologysotatercept

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PMID38327917
PMCPMC10849008

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