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ArticleAmerican journal of respiratory and critical care medicine2014

Eosinophilic inflammation in subjects with mild-to-moderate asthma with and without obesity: disparity between sputum and biopsies.

Erica van der Wiel, Nick H T Ten Hacken, Maarten van den Berge, Wim Timens, Helen K Reddel, Dirkje S Postma

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Article in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Obesity's effect on asthma extends to diagnostic criteria.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2018
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  3. [Acupuncture alleviates chronic airway inflammation in obese asthmatic mice by downregulating Vnn1 and FAM126B].Nan fang yi ke da xue xue bao = Journal of Southern Medical University · 2025
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  4. Obesity-driven airway eosinophilia and neutrophilia in asthma.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2025
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  6. Body Weight and Allergic Asthma: A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024
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  9. Mitoquinone mesylate attenuates pathological features of lean and obese allergic asthma in mice.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2023
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  17. The Emerging Roles of Surfactant Protein-A in Asthma.Journal of clinical & cellular immunology · 2018
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  18. Mechanisms of Asthma in Obesity. Pleiotropic Aspects of Obesity Produce Distinct Asthma Phenotypes.American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology · 2016
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Erica van der Wiel1 University of Groningen Groningen, The Netherlands and GRIAC Research Institute Groningen, The Netherlands.
Nick H T Ten Hacken
Maarten van den Berge
Wim Timens
Helen K Reddel
Dirkje S Postma

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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AsthmaEosinophiliaFemaleHumansInterleukin-5MaleObesityRespiratory MucosaSputumInterleukin-5

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