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ReviewJournal of veterinary internal medicine

Investigating the link between particulate exposure and airway inflammation in the horse.

K M Ivester, L L Couëtil, N J Zimmerman

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Review in Journal of veterinary internal medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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43citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
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

43 citing papers in PubMed, 73 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Do Polish Konik Horses Find Soaked Hay to Be Palatable?Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026
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  10. The impact of air pollution on petcare utilization.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  17. Environmental Management of Equine Asthma.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024
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  18. The Microbiota and Equine Asthma: An Integrative View of the Gut-Lung Axis.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024
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  19. Frontiers in immunology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

K M IvesterDepartment of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine, West Lafayette, IN.
L L Couëtil
N J Zimmerman
Purdue University West Lafayette · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inhalant exposure to airborne irritants commonly encountered in horse stables is implicated in the pathogenesis of inflammatory airway disease (IAD) and recurrent airway obstruction (RAO), non-infectious, inflammatory pulmonary disorders that impact the health and performance of horses across all equine disciplines. IAD and RAO have overlapping clinical, cytological, and functional manifestations of the pulmonary response to organic dust and noxious gases encountered in the barn environment. Study of these diseases has provided important but incomplete understanding of the effect of air quality upon the respiratory health of horses. In this review, the principles of particulate exposure assessment, including health-related aerosol size fractions and size-selective sampling, the factors influencing air quality in equine environments, and the effect of air quality on the equine respiratory tract are discussed. The objective of this review is to provide the reader with a summary of the most common chronic inflammatory airway diseases in the horse and the principles of air sampling that are essential to the planning, interpretation, and assessment of equine respiratory health-related exposure studies.

Indexed as

AnimalsEnvironmental ExposureHorse DiseasesHorsesInflammationParticulate MatterRespiratory SystemRespiratory Tract DiseasesParticulate MatterAerosol samplingDustEndotoxinInflammatory airway diseaseRecurrent airway obstruction

Identifiers

PMID25273818
PMCPMC4895611
OpenAlexW2131945488

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