ReviewERJ open research2016
High-altitude alpine therapy and lung function in asthma: systematic review and meta-analysis.
Review in ERJ open research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
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Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Impact of altitude correction on bronchopulmonary dysplasia prevalence: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
- Internet-Based Self-Management Support After High-Altitude Climate Treatment for Severe Asthma: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Trial
- Winter Exercise Reduces Allergic Airway Inflammation: A Randomized Controlled Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Trial
- Predictors of Quality-of-Life Improvement at Different Minimum Clinically Important Difference Values in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease after Climatic Rehabilitation Treatment.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- More airway smooth muscle in males versus females in a mouse model of asthma: A blessing in disguise?Experimental physiology · 2023Article
- Chronic developmental hypoxia alters rat lung immune cell transcriptomes during allergic airway inflammation.Physiological reports · 2023Article
- Sanya climatic-treatment cohort profile: objectives, design, and baseline characteristics.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Healthy worker survival effect at a high-altitude mine: prospective cohort observation.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Alpine altitude climate treatment for severe and uncontrolled asthma: An EAACI position paper.Allergy · 2022Article
- Low oxygen levels decrease adaptive immune responses and ameliorate experimental asthma in mice.Allergy · 2022Article
- Winter Exercise and Speleotherapy for Allergy and Asthma: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- The Effect of Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Mountain Environment on Exercise Capacity and Quality of Life in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Chronic Bronchitis.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2018Article
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Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
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Abstract
We used meta-analysis to measure the effect of high-altitude climate therapy (HACT) on lung function outcomes in asthma, and systematically searched PubMed, Embase and www.elibrary.ru for publications appearing from 1970 to mid-2015. We included studies carried out with children or adults with an exposure of up to 12 weeks at an altitude of ≥1500 m above sea level. Changes in forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV
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