Cause or consequence?

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.

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.

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Guideline-driven and dependable management of asthma: an evidence-based systematic review.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025
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2. Exploring Clinical Remission in Moderate Asthma - Perspectives from Asia, the Middle East, and South America.Pulmonary therapy · 2024
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3. Effect of Individual Patient Characteristics and Treatment Choices on Reliever Medication Use in Moderate-Severe Asthma: A Poisson Analysis of Randomised Clinical Trials.Advances in therapy · 2024
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4. SABAs as Reliever Medications in Asthma Management: Evidence-Based Science.Advances in therapy · 2023
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Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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