Evidence map›Paper›PMID 42194277›Full record

ArticleBioengineering (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Long-Term External Counterpulsation Reduces Beat-to-Beat Blood Pressure Variability Without Changing Arterial Blood Pressure in Ischemic Stroke: A Retrospective Case-Control Study.

Lixia Zhu, Xinyi Chen, Xiaoling Li, Thomas W Leung, Lawrence Ka Sing Wong, Jack Jiaqi Zhang, Yiao Liu, Bin Luo, Jianhang Du, Yiliang Li and 1 more

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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.

Lixia ZhuPharmaceutical Department, The Eighth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518033, China.
Xinyi ChenDivision of Neurological Rehabilitation, Department of Geriatrics, The Eighth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518033, China.
Xiaoling LiCommunity Health Service Management Center, The Eighth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518033, China.
Thomas W LeungDivision of Neurology, Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8193-0709
Lawrence Ka Sing WongDivision of Neurology, Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China.
Jack Jiaqi ZhangDepartment of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China.
Yiao LiuDivision of cerebrovascular diseases, Department of Neurosurgery, The Eighth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518033, China.
Bin LuoDivision of cerebrovascular diseases, Department of Neurosurgery, The Eighth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518033, China.
Jianhang DuMedical Research Center, The Eighth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518033, China.
Yiliang LiDivision of Neurological Rehabilitation, Department of Geriatrics, The Eighth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518033, China.
Li XiongClinical Research Department, The Eighth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518033, China.

Funding

Futian Healthcare Research Project No. FTWS2024031, No. FTWS2025010 and No. FTWS2023030National Natural Science Foundation of China 82171291Shenzhen Science and Technology Program No. JCYJ20250604142706008, No. JCYJ20220530144415035 and No. JCYJ20230807111011024
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

blood pressureblood pressure variabilityexternal counterpulsationischemic stroke

Identifiers

PMID42194277
PMCPMC13203218

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
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.