Ramipril research papers are retracted over faked data

Two papers that reported that the blood pressure drug ramipril was beneficial in patients with intermittent claudication due to peripheral artery disease have been retracted after an investigation found that data were fabricated by the studies’ lead author, Anna A Ahimastos, a researcher at the prestigious Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, Australia.

The first paper,1 published in JAMA in …