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ReviewExpert review of respiratory medicine2016

Advances in the treatment of virus-induced asthma.

Hock Tay, Peter A B Wark, Nathan W Bartlett

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In one paragraph

Review in Expert review of respiratory medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 26% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  5. Impact of Airway Virus in Severe Asthmatic Patients: A Pilot Study.Allergy, asthma & immunology research · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Hock Taya Hunter Medical Research Institute , Newcastle , Australia.
Peter A B Warka Hunter Medical Research Institute , Newcastle , Australia.
Nathan W Bartletta Hunter Medical Research Institute , Newcastle , Australia.
Hunter Medical Research Institute · AUImperial College London · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Viral exacerbations continue to represent the major burden in terms of morbidity, mortality and health care costs associated with asthma. Those at greatest risk for acute asthma are those with more severe airways disease and poor asthma control. It is this group with established asthma in whom acute exacerbations triggered by virus infections remain a serious cause of increased morbidity. A range of novel therapies are emerging to treat asthma and in particular target this group with poor disease control, and in most cases their efficacy is now being judged by their ability to reduce the frequency of acute exacerbations. Critical for the development of new treatment approaches is an improved understanding of virus-host interaction in the context of the asthmatic airway. This requires research into the virology of the disease in physiological models in conjunction with detailed phenotypic characterisation of asthma patients to identify targets amenable to therapeutic intervention.

Indexed as

Acute DiseaseAsthmaHumansVirus Diseasesairway inflammationbronchoconstrictioncorticosteroidscytokineepitheliuminnateanti-viral immunitymonoclonal antibodyRhinovirustype-2 immunityβ-agonists

Identifiers

PMID27088397
PMCPMC7103718
OpenAlexW2342212517

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Registered trials

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