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ArticleOxford medical case reports2017

Similar adverse events from two disparate agents implicate lipid inflammatory mediators for a role in anxiety states.

Gordon C McCarter, Lauren B Blanchard

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Article in Oxford medical case reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 37% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Neuropsychiatric events associated with montelukast in patients with asthma: a systematic review.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2023
    Pooled it
  2. Drug-induced Neuropsychiatric Adverse Events Using Post-Marketing Surveillance.Current reviews in clinical and experimental pharmacology · 2022
    Article
  3. Metabolomic Biomarkers in Anxiety Disorders.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gordon C McCarterDepartment of Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Touro University California, College of Pharmacy, Vallejo, CA, USA.
Lauren B BlanchardFamily Medicine Oakland, Oakland, CA,USA.
Touro University California · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We recently reported a case in which a 54-year-old male experienced maintenance insomnia, generalized anxiety and panic symptoms associated with consumption of a fish oil supplement enriched in eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA). We report here that the same patient has experienced identical but more severe symptoms in response to the use of the leukotriene receptor antagonist montelukast, in accordance with other cases reported to the Food and Drug Administration. Since omega-3 fatty acids like EPA are precursors for the biosynthesis of eicosanoids including leukotrienes, a common factor to these psychiatric adverse events may be perturbations in this highly complex system of lipid inflammatory mediators.

Identifiers

PMID29218228
PMCPMC5710513
OpenAlexW2770418547

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