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Trial reportActa otorhinolaryngologica Italica : organo ufficiale della Societa italiana di otorinolaringologia e chirurgia cervico-facciale2020

Clinical comparison of the efficacy of spirulina platensis and cetirizine for treatment of allergic rhinitis.

Morteza Nourollahian, Bashir Rasoulian, Attaallah Gafari, Majid Anoushiravani, Farahzad Jabari, Mehdi Bakhshaee

Open access · goldAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Acta otorhinolaryngologica Italica : organo ufficiale della Societa italiana di otorinolaringologia e chirurgia cervico-facciale, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Neuroprotective and Antioxidant Study ofCurrent aging science · 2026
    Article
  2. Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
    Review
  3. Review
  4. Focused allergic rhinitis practice parameter for Canada.Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2024
    Article
  5. Spirulina (Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
    Review
  6. Review
  7. Supplementation WithFrontiers in pharmacology · 2022
    Article
  8. Article
  9. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Morteza NourollahianSinus and Surgical Endoscopic Research Center, Emmam Reza Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Bashir RasoulianSinus and Surgical Endoscopic Research Center, Emmam Reza Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Attaallah GafariSinus and Surgical Endoscopic Research Center, Emmam Reza Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Majid AnoushiravaniSchool of Persian and Complementary Medicine, Department of Persian medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Farahzad JabariAllergy Research Center, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Mehdi BakhshaeeSinus and Surgical Endoscopic Research Center, Emmam Reza Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Emam Reza Hospital · IRMashhad University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

SpirulinaAdolescentAdultCetirizineChildHumansMiddle AgedRhinitis, AllergicSingle-Blind MethodYoung AdultCetirizineallergic rhinitismedical therapy of chronic rhinosinusitisspirulinatherapeutics

Identifiers

PMID32773785
PMCPMC7416373
OpenAlexW3048847791

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