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Lipid-lowering agents for nephrotic syndrome

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, December 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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Citations

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Title
Lipid-lowering agents for nephrotic syndrome
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, December 2013
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd005425.pub2
Pubmed ID
Authors

Xiangyu Kong, Hao Yuan, Junming Fan, Zi Li, Taixiang Wu, Lanhui Jiang

Abstract

Nephrotic syndrome is the collective name given to a group of symptoms that include proteinuria, lipiduria, hypoalbuminaemia, oedema, hypercholesterolaemia, elevated triglycerides, and hyperlipidaemia. Hyperlipidaemia is thought to aggravate glomerulosclerosis (hardening of blood vessels in the kidneys) and enhance progression of glomerular disease. Studies have established that reduction in total cholesterol and low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is associated with reduction in risk of cardiovascular diseases. In 2011, the European Society of Cardiology and European Atherosclerosis Society guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemia recommended use of statins as first-line agents in the management of nephrotic dyslipidaemia. However, the effectiveness and safety of statins for people with nephrotic syndrome remains uncertain. Furthermore, the efficacy of second-line lipid-lowering drugs, such as ezetimibe and nicotinic acid, has not been proven in patients with nephrotic syndrome who are unable to tolerate statin therapy.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Indonesia 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Unknown 190 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 33 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 13%
Researcher 21 11%
Student > Master 20 10%
Student > Postgraduate 17 9%
Other 35 18%
Unknown 42 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 82 42%
Nursing and Health Professions 22 11%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 10 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 2%
Other 22 11%
Unknown 48 25%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 18 June 2015.
All research outputs
#5,618,426
of 22,736,112 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#7,490
of 12,315 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#65,260
of 306,776 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#142
of 221 outputs
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