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ArticleNature communications2022

Human acute inflammatory recovery is defined by co-regulatory dynamics of white blood cell and platelet populations.

Brody H Foy, Thoralf M Sundt, Jonathan C T Carlson, Aaron D Aguirre, John M Higgins

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Article in Nature communications, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.

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48citing papers in PubMed
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

48 citing papers in PubMed, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Brody H FoyCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Thoralf M SundtDivision of Cardiac Surgery, Corrigan Minehan Heart Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Jonathan C T CarlsonCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. carlson.jonathan@mgh.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4139-9057
Aaron D AguirreCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Aguirre.Aaron@mgh.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5509-1646
John M HigginsCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. john_higgins@hms.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-9182-0076
Harvard University · USMassachusetts General Hospital · US

Funding

Systems Biology of In Vivo Human Blood Cell PopulationsDP2DK098087 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI HIGGINS, JOHN MATTHEW · 2012 to 2012
$2.6M
NIDDK NIH HHS DP2 DK098087
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammation is the physiologic reaction to cellular and tissue damage caused by trauma, ischemia, infection, and other pathologic conditions. Elevation of white blood cell count (WBC) and altered levels of other acute phase reactants are cardinal signs of inflammation, but the dynamics of these changes and their resolution are not well established. Here we studied inflammatory recovery from trauma, ischemia, and infection by tracking longitudinal dynamics of clinical laboratory measurements in hospitalized patients. We identified a universal recovery trajectory defined by exponential WBC decay and delayed linear growth of platelet count (PLT). Co-regulation of WBC-PLT dynamics is a fundamental mechanism of acute inflammatory recovery and provides a generic approach for identifying high-risk patients: 32x relative risk (RR) of adverse outcomes for cardiac surgery, 9x RR of death from COVID-19, 9x RR of death from sepsis, and 5x RR of death from myocardial infarction.

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COVID-19HumansInflammationLeukocyte CountLeukocytesPlatelet Count

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PMID35995789
PMCPMC9395541
OpenAlexW4292603729

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