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ReviewAmerican journal of cardiovascular drugs : drugs, devices, and other interventions2025

Inclisiran as a siRNA Inhibitor of Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin/Kexin Type 9 (PCSK9); Past, Present, and Future.

Taha Mansoor, Bassam Hamid Rao, Kartik Gupta, Sachin S Parikh, Dmitry Abramov, Anurag Mehta, Mahmoud Al Rifai, Salim S Virani, Vijay Nambi, Abdul Mannan Khan Minhas and 1 more

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Review in American journal of cardiovascular drugs : drugs, devices, and other interventions, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. CRISPR Interference to Inhibit Oncogenes for Cancer Therapy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  4. Advances in Non-statin Lipid Therapies: A Narrative Review of Evolving Strategies for Cardiovascular Risk Reduction.American journal of cardiovascular drugs : drugs, devices, and other interventions · 2026
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  5. Review
  6. Naturally Occurring PCSK9 Inhibitors: An Updated Review.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Taha MansoorDepartment of Internal Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, 1000 Oakland Dr, Kalamazoo, MI, USA. taha.mansoor@wmed.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0447-7186
Bassam Hamid RaoShifa College of Medicine, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Kartik GuptaDepartment of Cardiology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.
Sachin S ParikhDepartment of Cardiology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.
Dmitry AbramovDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Loma Linda University Health, Loma Linda, CA, USA.
Anurag MehtaDivision of Cardiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
Mahmoud Al RifaiHouston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Salim S ViraniDepartment of Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Vijay NambiDepartment of Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Abdul Mannan Khan MinhasDepartment of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Santhosh K G KoshyDepartment of Internal Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, 1000 Oakland Dr, Kalamazoo, MI, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reducing low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels has been shown to reduce the risk of developing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). Statins are the foundation of LDL-C lowering therapy with other non-statin agents used in circumstances where goal LDL-C levels are not reached or owing to intolerance to adverse effects of statins. In 2003, the discovery of the role of the proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) system in promoting elevated LDL-C levels led to new avenues of drug development to achieve target LDL-C. In 2021, inclisiran, a small interfering ribonucleic acid (siRNA) molecule targeting PCSK9 was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Inclisiran has demonstrated effective reductions of LDL-C, such as in the large phase-3 ORION-9, ORION-10, and ORION-11 trials in which it achieved LDL-C reductions of 39.7%, 52.3%, and 49.9%, respectively. This review discusses the current clinical evidence and ongoing clinical studies of inclisiran as well as analyzes other areas of PCSK9 inhibition development.

Indexed as

Anticholesteremic AgentsPCSK9 InhibitorsProprotein Convertase 9RNA, Small InterferingAnimalsCholesterol, LDLHumansALN-PCSAnticholesteremic AgentsCholesterol, LDLPCSK9 InhibitorsPCSK9 protein, humanProprotein Convertase 9RNA, Small Interfering

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