Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34041256›Full record

ReviewFrontiers in medicine2021

Biomarkers in Progressive Fibrosing Interstitial Lung Disease: Optimizing Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment Response.

Willis S Bowman, Gabrielle A Echt, Justin M Oldham

Open access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
44citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
7.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

44 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 72 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Prognostic biomarkers for the development of progressive pulmonary fibrosis in hypersensitivity pneumonitis: a systematic review.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025
    Pooled it
  3. Trial
  4. Trial
  5. Review
  6. Prevalence and Prognostic Impact of Progressive Pulmonary Fibrosis.Tuberculosis and respiratory diseases · 2026
    Review
  7. Observational
  8. Article
  9. Observational
  10. Proteomic Biomarkers of Survival in Non-Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Interstitial Lung Disease.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2025
    Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Observational
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. Article
  19. Longitudinal microcomputed tomography detects onset and progression of pulmonary fibrosis in conditionalAmerican journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2024
    Article
  20. Observational
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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Willis S BowmanDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States.
Gabrielle A EchtDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States.
Justin M OldhamDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States.
University of California, Davis · US

Funding

UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science CenterUL1TR001860 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI KENYON, NICHOLAS J., LYLES, COURTNEY REES · 2016 to 2025
$47.3M
Elucidating the Genomic Determinants of Outcomes in Idiopathic Pulmonary FibrosisK23HL138190 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI OLDHAM, JUSTIN M · 2017 to 2021
$914k
Interrogation of the inflammasome to identify biomarkers of progressive interstitial lung diseaseR03HL157895 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI OLDHAM, JUSTIN M · 2021 to 2022
$157k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001860NHLBI NIH HHS K23 HL138190NHLBI NIH HHS R03 HL157895
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Interstitial lung disease (ILD) comprises a heterogenous group of diffuse lung disorders that commonly result in irreversible pulmonary fibrosis. While idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is the prototypical progressive fibrosing ILD (PF-ILD), a high proportion of patients with other ILD subtypes develop a PF-ILD phenotype. Evidence exists for shared pathobiology leading to progressive fibrosis, suggesting that biomarkers of disease activity may prove informative across the wide spectrum of ILDs. Biomarker investigation to date has identified a number of molecular markers that predict relevant ILD endpoints, including disease presence, prognosis, and/or treatment response. In this review, we provide an overview of potentially informative biomarkers in patients with ILD, including those suggestive of a PF-ILD phenotype. We highlight the recent genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic investigations that identified these biomarkers and discuss the body compartments in which they are found, including the peripheral blood, airway, and lung parenchyma. Finally, we identify critical gaps in knowledge within the field of ILD biomarker research and propose steps to advance the field toward biomarker implementation.

Indexed as

biomarkerconnective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung diseasehypersensitivity pneumonitisidiopathic pulmonary fibrosisinterstitial lung diseaseprogressive fibrosing ILD

Identifiers

PMID34041256
PMCPMC8141562
OpenAlexW3162143356

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.