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ArticleAmerican journal of respiratory and critical care medicine2024

Can We Use Lung Function Thresholds and Respiratory Symptoms to Identify Pre-Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease? A Prospective, Population-based Cohort Study.

Daniel J Tan, Caroline J Lodge, E Haydn Walters, Dinh S Bui, Jonathan Pham, Adrian J Lowe, Gayan Bowatte, Don Vicendese, Bircan Erbas, David P Johns and 10 more

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Article in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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26citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
13.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors at 11 institutions in 3 countries.

Daniel J TanAllergy and Lung Health Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-3536-8756
Caroline J LodgeAllergy and Lung Health Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
E Haydn WaltersAllergy and Lung Health Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Dinh S BuiAllergy and Lung Health Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-4388-784X
Jonathan PhamAllergy and Lung Health Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Adrian J LoweAllergy and Lung Health Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Gayan BowatteAllergy and Lung Health Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Don VicendeseAllergy and Lung Health Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Bircan ErbasSchool of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
David P JohnsAllergy and Lung Health Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Alan L JamesDepartment of Pulmonary Physiology and Sleep Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia.
Peter FrithCollege of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Garun S HamiltonMonash Lung, Sleep, Allergy & Immunology, Monash Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Paul S ThomasPrince of Wales Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Richard Wood-BakerSchool of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
MeiLan K HanDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
George R WashkoDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Michael J AbramsonSchool of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Jennifer L PerretAllergy and Lung Health Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-7034-0615
Shyamali C DharmageAllergy and Lung Health Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The University of Melbourne · AUUniversity of Tasmania · AUBrigham and Women's Hospital · USFlinders University · AULa Trobe University · AUMichigan Medicine · USMonash Health · AUMonash University · AUSir Charles Gairdner Hospital · AUUniversity of Peradeniya · LKUNSW Sydney · AU

Funding

Clifford Craig FoundationGlaxoSmithKlineHelen MacPherson Smith TrustNational Health and Medical Research CouncilRoyal Hobart Hospital Research FoundationUniversity of Melbourne
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Pulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveSpirometryAdultCohort StudiesFemaleForced Expiratory VolumeHumansIncidenceLongitudinal StudiesMaleMiddle AgedProspective StudiesRespiratory Function TestsTasmaniaVital CapacityCOPDdiffusing capacitylung volumespre-COPDspirometry

Identifiers

PMID38236192
OpenAlexW4390972995

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