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| Title |
Is statin-modified reduction in lipids the most important preventive therapy for cardiovascular disease? A pro/con debate
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| Published in |
BMC Medicine, January 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12916-016-0550-5 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
FD Richard Hobbs, Maciej Banach, Dimitri P. Mikhailidis, Aseem Malhotra, Simon Capewell |
| Abstract |
The most prescribed medications in the world are statins, lipid modifiers that have been available for over 25 years and amongst the most investigated of all drug classes. With over a million patient years of trial data and publications in the most prestigious medical journals, it is remarkable that quite so much debate remains as to their place in healthcare. They have had a bittersweet passage, with vocal concerns over their possible risks, from suicide to cancer, and allegations that they do not work in women or the elderly, to statements that the whole published dataset, on over 200,000 patients consenting to enter trials, was fatally compromised by being industry-funded by and large. On the other side, there have been billions of dollars spent on generating their evidence base followed by promotion which has returned that investment many times over in profits, and a powerful scientific lobby that argue they are wonder drugs and that continued nihilism on their value risks patient lives. So who is right? |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 110 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 21 | 19% |
| United States | 7 | 6% |
| Australia | 4 | 4% |
| Argentina | 4 | 4% |
| Italy | 2 | 2% |
| Zimbabwe | 2 | 2% |
| Poland | 2 | 2% |
| India | 2 | 2% |
| Saudi Arabia | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 15 | 14% |
| Unknown | 49 | 45% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 72 | 65% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 22 | 20% |
| Scientists | 13 | 12% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 101 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 99 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 14 | 14% |
| Other | 11 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 11 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 8% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 8% |
| Other | 25 | 25% |
| Unknown | 24 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 36 | 36% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 8 | 8% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 6 | 6% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 4% |
| Unspecified | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 14 | 14% |
| Unknown | 29 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 123. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 May 2023.
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#338,091
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Outputs from BMC Medicine
#279
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#5,914
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#5
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Altmetric has tracked 25,389,532 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,005 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 45.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its peers.
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