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ReviewThe World Allergy Organization journal2016

Asthma heterogeneity and severity.

Tara F Carr, Eugene Bleecker

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Review in The World Allergy Organization journal, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

51 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Tara F CarrAsthma and Airway Disease Research Center, University of Arizona, 1501 N Campbell Ave, Tucson, AZ 85724-5030 USA.
Eugene BleeckerCenter for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Asthma is a common, chronic inflammatory airways disease characterized by a clinical syndrome of bronchial hyperresponsiveness, inflammation, and reversible airflow obstruction. Individuals with asthma can vary widely in clinical presentation, severity, and pathobiology. The incident factors, pathogenesis, prognosis, and treatment of asthma remain incompletely understood. Utilizing measurable characteristics of asthmatic patients, including demographic, physiologic, and biologic markers, can however identify meaningful phenotypic categories in asthma. Identification of these phenotypes may help improve precision therapeutics targeted toward an individual's' disease, and may identify strategies for preventing progression of disease severity.

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HeterogeneityPhenotypeSevere asthma

Identifiers

PMID27980705
PMCPMC5129643

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