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ReviewMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2021

Challenges in Diagnosing Occupational Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Cristiana Libu, Marina Ruxandra Otelea, Ioan Anton Arghir, Agripina Rascu, Sabina Antonela Antoniu, Oana Cristina Arghir

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Review in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Cristiana LibuDepartment of Pneumology, Faculty of Medicine, Ovidius University of Constanta, 900470 Constanta, Romania.
Marina Ruxandra OteleaClinical Department 5, Faculty of General Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, 020021 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-0829-0562
Ioan Anton ArghirDepartment of Pneumology, Faculty of Medicine, Ovidius University of Constanta, 900470 Constanta, Romania.
Agripina RascuClinical Department 5, Faculty of General Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, 020021 Bucharest, Romania.
Sabina Antonela AntoniuDepartment of Medicine II and Palliative Care Nursing, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Grigore T Popa, 700115 Iasi, Romania.ORCID 0000-0003-3727-231X
Oana Cristina ArghirDepartment of Pneumology, Faculty of Medicine, Ovidius University of Constanta, 900470 Constanta, Romania.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Occupational chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (oCOPD) represents 15-20% of the global burden of this disease. Even if industrial bronchitis has long been known, new occupational hazards continue to emerge and enlarge the number of people exposed to risk. This review discusses the challenges related to the early detection of oCOPD, in the context of new exposures and of limited usage of methods for an efficient disease occupational screening. It underlines that a better translation into clinical practice of the new methods for lung function impairment measurements, imaging techniques, or the use of serum or exhaled breath inflammation biomarkers could add significant value in the early detection of oCOPD. Such an approach would increase the chance to stop exposure at an earlier moment and to prevent or at least slow down the further deterioration of the lung function as a result of exposure to occupational (inhaled) hazards.

Indexed as

Occupational DiseasesPulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveHumansRisk FactorsCOPD-exposure hazardsinhaled noxious compoundsoccupational medicineworkplace

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PMID34577834
PMCPMC8469547

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