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SynthesisThe Journal of allergy and clinical immunology2018

Endogenous and exogenous sex steroid hormones in asthma and allergy in females: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Nicola McCleary, Bright I Nwaru, Ulugbek B Nurmatov, Hilary Critchley, Aziz Sheikh

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In one paragraph

Synthesis in The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
38citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 87 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. Sex, hormones, and lung health.Physiological reviews · 2026
    Review
  5. Sex Differences in Asthma Pathogenesis.Immunological reviews · 2026
    Review
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  7. Why Every Asthma Patient Tells a Different Story.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025
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  12. The association of infant urinary adrenal steroids with the risk of childhood asthma development.Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology · 2024
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  19. Paediatric asthma and non-allergic comorbidities: A review of current risk and proposed mechanisms.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2022
    Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Nicola McClearyAsthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: nmccleary@ohri.ca.
Bright I NwaruAsthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Krefting Research Centre, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Ulugbek B NurmatovAsthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Hilary CritchleyMedical Research Council Centre for Reproductive Health, Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Aziz SheikhAsthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Asthma UK · GBMRC Centre for Reproductive Health · GBOttawa Hospital · CA

Funding

Chief Scientist Office CZH/4/1083Medical Research Council G1000758Medical Research Council MC_PC_13040Medical Research Council MR/K007017/1Medical Research Council MR/M501633/1Medical Research Council MR/M501633/2
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AsthmaClinical Trials as TopicFemaleGonadal Steroid HormonesHumansHypersensitivityMaleObservational Studies as TopicRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicGonadal Steroid Hormones

Identifiers

PMID29305316
PMCPMC5883329
OpenAlexW2781718610

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