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ArticleInternational journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease2020

FEF

Do Sun Kwon, Yong Jun Choi, Tae Hee Kim, Min Kwang Byun, Jae Hwa Cho, Hyung Jung Kim, Hye Jung Park

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Article in International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

60 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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

7 authors.

Do Sun Kwon *Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym Hospital, Incheon, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-0165-7261
Yong Jun Choi *Department of Internal Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-6114-2059
Tae Hee KimDepartment of Internal Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-3673-7595
Min Kwang ByunDepartment of Internal Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-1525-1745
Jae Hwa ChoDepartment of Internal Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-3432-3997
Hyung Jung KimDepartment of Internal Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-2498-0683
Hye Jung ParkDepartment of Internal Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-1862-1003

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose: The forced mid-expiratory flow (FEF Patients and Methods: Between July 1, 2007 and June 31, 2009, we identified 3624 patients who underwent a pulmonary function test (PFT) in Gangnam Severance Hospital. We selected 307 patients aged over 40 years without COPD who had normal PFT results at baseline and who had follow-up PFT records more than 1 year later. A FEF Results: Among 307 patients, 91 (29.6%) had low FEF Conclusion: The FEF

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Pulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveAgedForced Expiratory VolumeHumansLungRespiratory Function TestsVital CapacityCOPDrespiratory function teststobacco

Identifiers

PMID33209020
PMCPMC7669499

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