Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30867323›Full record

ReviewScience translational medicine2019

"Inactive" ingredients in oral medications.

Daniel Reker, Steven M Blum, Christoph Steiger, Kevin E Anger, Jamie M Sommer, John Fanikos, Giovanni Traverso

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Review in Science translational medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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38citing papers in PubMed
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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.

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  9. Clinical and radiological outcomes of directed treatment transitions from GilenyaMultiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England) · 2026
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  15. Inconsistent excipient listings in DailyMed: implications for drug safety.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2024
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  20. Proton Pump Inhibitors in Allergy: Benefits and Risks.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Daniel RekerKoch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4789-7380
Steven M BlumKoch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6030-7192
Christoph SteigerKoch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5994-7819
Kevin E AngerDepartment of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3202-3421
Jamie M SommerInvestigational Drug Service, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6836-8915
John FanikosInvestigational Drug Service, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4218-2637
Giovanni TraversoKoch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. ctraverso@bwh.harvard.edu cgt20@mit.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-7851-4077

Funding

CONTROLLED RELEASE OF MACROMOLECULESR01EB000244 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LANGER, ROBERT SAMUEL, TRAVERSO, CARLO GIOVANNI · 2002 to 2021
$6.1M
Controlled Release of MacromoleculesR37EB000244 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LANGER, ROBERT SAMUEL · 2008 to 2017
$3.9M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB000244NIBIB NIH HHS R37 EB000244
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oral forms of medications contain "inactive" ingredients to enhance their physical properties. Using data analytics, we characterized the abundance and complexity of inactive ingredients in approved medications. A majority of medications contain ingredients that could cause adverse reactions, underscoring the need to maximize the tolerability and safety of medications and their inactive ingredients.

Indexed as

Administration, OralAnimalsDrug CompoundingExcipientsHumansPharmaceutical PreparationsExcipientsPharmaceutical Preparations

Identifiers

PMID30867323
PMCPMC7122736

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