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SynthesisCurrent allergy and asthma reports2023

Effects of Tezepelumab on Quality of Life of Patients with Moderate-to-Severe, Uncontrolled Asthma: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Gabriel Cavalcante Lima Chagas, Débora Xavier, Lorena Gomes, Juliana Ferri-Guerra, Rafael Enrique Hernandez Oquet

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Synthesis in Current allergy and asthma reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Asthma Phenotypes in the Era of Personalized Medicine.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Gabriel Cavalcante Lima ChagasDepartment of Internal Medicine, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil. gabrielchagas.gc@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7398-9070
Débora XavierDepartment of Medicine, Federal University of Pará, Belém, PA, Brazil.
Lorena GomesDepartment of Medicine, Federal University of Pará, Belém, PA, Brazil.
Juliana Ferri-GuerraDepartment of Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL, USA.
Rafael Enrique Hernandez OquetDivision of Hospital Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami Beach, FL, USA.
Universidade Federal do Pará · BRMount Sinai Medical Center · USUniversidade Federal do Ceará · BRUniversity of Miami · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewTo assess the effects of tezepelumab on quality of life (QoL) in patients with moderate-to-severe, uncontrolled asthma. RECENT

findingsTezepelumab improves pulmonary function tests (PFTs) and reduces the annualized asthma exacerbation rate (AAER) in patients with moderate-to-severe, uncontrolled asthma. We searched MEDLINE, Embase, and Cochrane Library from inception to September 2022. We included randomized controlled trials comparing tezepelumab versus placebo in patients aged ≥ 12 years with asthma on medium- or high-dose inhaled corticosteroids with ≥ 1 additional controller medication for ≥ 6 months and who had ≥ 1 asthma exacerbation in the 12 months before enrollment. We estimated effects measures with a random-effects model. Of 239 records identified, three studies were included, with a total of 1,484 patients. Tezepelumab significantly decreased biomarkers of T helper 2-driven inflammation, including blood eosinophil count (MD -135.8 [95% CI -164.37, -107.23]) and fractional exhaled nitric oxide (MD -9.64 [95% CI -13.75, -5.53]); improved PFTs, including pre-bronchodilator forced expiratory volume in 1 s (MD 0.18 [95% CI 0.08-0.27]); reduced the AAER (MD 0.47 [95% CI 0.39-0.56]); improved asthma-specific health-related QoL in the Asthma Control Questionnaire-6 (MD -0.33 [95% CI -0.34, -0.32]), Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire for 12 Years and Older (MD 0.34 [95% CI 0.33, -0.35]), Asthma Symptom Diary (MD -0.11 [95% CI -0.18, -0.04]), and European Quality of Life 5 Dimensions 5 Levels Questionnaire (SMD 3.29 [95% CI 2.03, 4.55]) scores, although not clinically important; and did not change key safety outcomes, including any adverse event (OR 0.78 [95% CI 0.56-1.09]).

Indexed as

AsthmaQuality of LifeAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedEosinophilsHumansAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedtezepelumabAsthmaMeta-analysisSystematic reviewTezepelumabThymic stromal lymphopoietin

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PMID37191902
OpenAlexW4376642899

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