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ReviewArhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju2024

Athlete biological passport: longitudinal biomarkers and statistics in the fight against doping.

Dora Dragčević, Vlatka Pandžić Jakšić, Ozren Jakšić

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Review in Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 18% 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

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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Angiogenic Doping: Plausible Yet Difficult to Detect.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026
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  2. Erythropoiesis-Targeted Doping in Sports: From Improved Oxygen Transport to Cardiovascular Risk.Pathophysiology : the official journal of the International Society for Pathophysiology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Dora DragčevićUniversity Hospital Merkur, Department of Haematology, Zagreb, Croatia.
Vlatka Pandžić JakšićUniversity Hospital Dubrava, Department of Endocrinology, Zagreb, Croatia.
Ozren JakšićUniversity of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4026-285X
University of Zagreb · HRKlinička bolnica Merkur · HR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As novel substances, short time windows, and limits of detection increasingly challenge direct methods of doping detection in sports, indirect tools inevitably take a greater role in the fight against it. One such tool is the athlete biological passport (ABP) - a longitudinal profiling of the measured haematological and biochemical biomarkers, combined with calculated scores, against the background of epidemiological data crucial for doping detection. In both of its modules, haematological and steroidal, ABP parameters are analysed with the Bayesian adaptive model, which individualises reference and cut-off values to improve its sensitivity. It takes into account the confounding factors with proven and potential influence on the biomarkers, such as race and altitude exposure. The ABP has already changed the fight against doping, but its importance will further grow with the new modules (e.g., endocrinological), parameters (e.g., plasma volume-independent parameters), and complementing indirect methods (e.g., transcriptomic).

Indexed as

Doping in SportsSportsAthletesBayes TheoremBiomarkersHumansSubstance Abuse DetectionBiomarkersABPbiochemical factorsbiokemijski čimbenicibiološka putovnica sportašaconfounding factorshaematological modulehematološki modulsteroidal modulesteroidni modulzbunjujući čimbenici

Identifiers

PMID38548376
PMCPMC10978099
OpenAlexW4393281789

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