State-of-the-Art-Review : Statins Induce Hypothrombotic States?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Statins inhibit 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl coenzyme A (HMGCoA) reductase, which synthesizes mevalonic acid in the isoprenoid pathways. These pathways lead to squalene and subsequently to cholesterol and related products (e.g., steroids, vitamin D, bile salts, lipopro teins) and have major branches producing cell regulatory substances (e.g., farnesyl- and geranylgeranyl conjugated proteins) (1,2). Although cholesterol reduc tion in blood has been widely believed to be beneficial (e.g., less available for accumulation by foam cells in atherosclerotic plaques), the ability of cholesterol reduc tion to mitigate the incidence and severity of cardiovas cular diseases has recently been questioned. Like others (3-10), we (11) believe that statins and other substances, for example, plant isoprenoids in the diet (12), have ben eficial antithrombotic properties arising through the in hibition of an isoprenoid product other than cholesterol. However, unlike others, we also believe that this isopren oid product has cell regulatory functions upregulated by thrombin stimulation. Moreover, through such cellular pathways, thrombin should upregulate its own genera tion, and statins and dietary isoprenoids should induce hypothrombotic states by downregulating thrombin gen eration (Fig. 1).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".