By Larry Husten, Contributor The editors of the European Heart Journal have retracted the 2009 paper reporting the main results of the Kyoto Heart Study, a randomized, open-labeled study testing the add-on effect of valsartan to conventional therapy in high-risk hypertension. The retraction notice gave no details about the problems that led to the retraction. Here is the full text of the retraction notice: “This article has been retracted by the journal. Critical problems existed with some of the data reported in the above paper. The editors of the European Heart Journal hereby retract this paper and discourage citations of it.”
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Two Retractions For Embattled Chief Investigator Of Kyoto Heart Study
By Larry Husten, Contributor The editor of Circulation Journal, the official journal of the Japanese Circulation Society (and not to be confused with the American Heart Association‘s better known Circulation) has announced the retraction of two substudies from the Kyoto Heart Study. The papers, according to the editor, “contain a number of serious errors in data analysis.” The announcement […]
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