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Record W4407202814 · doi:10.1097/crd.0000000000000862

Trimetazidine Use in Cardiovascular Disease

2025· article· en· W4407202814 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueCardiology in Review · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicCardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTrimetazidineMedicineCardiologyCoronary artery diseaseInternal medicineHeart failureEjection fractionAnginaCanadian Cardiovascular SocietyPercutaneous coronary interventionMyocardial infarction

Abstract

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Trimetazidine is an antianginal medication approved in numerous countries for use in the symptomatic treatment of stable coronary artery disease and angina pectoris. Its main mechanism of action revolves around the inhibition of β-oxidation of free fatty acids in the myocardium, in addition to its antioxidant properties and inhibition of cardiac fibrosis. Based on current evidence, trimetazidine is classified by European guidelines as a second-line antianginal agent and as an add-on for the symptomatic treatment of stable angina in patients not adequately controlled with first-line antianginal therapies such as beta-blockers. However, its role in the treatment of cardiovascular disease extends past coronary artery disease, as numerous studies have demonstrated its potential benefit in heart failure patients as well. Unfortunately, trimetazidine's role in the treatment of heart failure is still not clearly identified, since most studies on this topic were underpowered and unable to reach a decisive conclusion regarding any potential mortality benefits in heart failure. Current European guidelines have categorized trimetazidine as a class IIb recommendation in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and angina because of its additive effects of improved left ventricular function and anginal symptom relief in patients already on beta-blockers. Additionally, trimetazidine's use in coronary interventions (ie, percutaneous coronary intervention and coronary artery bypass grafting) showed a reduction in the frequency of anginal attacks and myocardial damage, but the studies were also underpowered and therefore unable to conclusively determine whether trimetazidine should be incorporated in guideline-directed therapy for coronary interventions.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.475
Threshold uncertainty score0.615

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.036
GPT teacher head0.303
Teacher spread0.267 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it