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ArticleThe Journal of allergy and clinical immunology2008

Anaphylaxis epidemic: fact or fiction?

F Estelle R Simons, Hugh A Sampson

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Article in The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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26citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. Lactate in Anaphylaxis: 100 Years On.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025
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  6. Development and Evaluation of Modified Criteria for Infant and Toddler Anaphylaxis.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice · 2024
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  13. Pre-hospital treatment of bee and wasp induced anaphylactic reactions: a retrospective study.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2017
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  14. International Consensus (ICON): allergic reactions to vaccines.The World Allergy Organization journal · 2016
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  16. Predictors of anaphylaxis in korean adults.Allergy, asthma & immunology research · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

F Estelle R Simons
Hugh A Sampson

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AdolescentAdultAgedAge FactorsAnaphylaxisChildChild, PreschoolContrast MediaDrug HypersensitivityFemaleFood HypersensitivityHumansIncidenceInfantInsect Bites and StingsMaleContrast Media

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