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ArticleERJ open research2016

GOLD criteria overestimate airflow limitation in one-third of cases in the general Finnish population.

Annette Kainu, Kirsi Timonen, Ari Lindqvist, Päivi Piirilä

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Article 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 6 papers.

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Annette KainuHeart and Lung Center, Peijas Hospital, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID 0000-0001-6847-4358
Kirsi TimonenDept of Clinical Physiology, Central Hospital of Central Finland, Jyväskylä, Finland; Dept of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital and University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.
Ari LindqvistResearch Unit of Pulmonary Diseases, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
Päivi PiiriläDept of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, HUS Medical Imaging Center, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
University of Helsinki · FIUniversity of Eastern Finland · FI

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) diagnostic criteria for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) use a fixed threshold of forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV

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