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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Is Blood Eosinophil Count a Biomarker for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in a Real-World Clinical Setting? Predictive Property and Longitudinal Stability in Japanese Patients.

Koichi Nishimura, Masaaki Kusunose, Ryo Sanda, Mio Mori, Ayumi Shibayama, Kazuhito Nakayasu

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Koichi NishimuraDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu 474-8511, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0651-7484
Masaaki KusunoseDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu 474-8511, Japan.
Ryo SandaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu 474-8511, Japan.
Mio MoriDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu 474-8511, Japan.
Ayumi ShibayamaDepartment of Nursing, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu 474-8511, Japan.
Kazuhito NakayasuData Research Section, Kondo Photo Process Co., Ltd., Osaka 543-0011, Japan.
National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology · JP

Funding

the Research Funding for Longevity Sciences from the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology (NCGG), Japan 30-24
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The authors examined predictive properties and the longitudinal stability of blood eosinophil count (BEC) or three strata (<100 cells/mm

Indexed as

acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD)blood eosinophil count (BEC)chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)eosinophilinhaled corticosteroids (ICS)the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD)

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PMID33673418
PMCPMC7996846
OpenAlexW3134215227

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