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ArticleERJ open research2025

Occluding mucous airway plugs in patients with obstructive lung diseases: a new treatable trait?

Alvar Agustí, Stefano Aliberti, Francesco Blasi, Marc Miravitlles, Alberto Papi

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Article in ERJ open research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Alvar AgustíCatedra Salud Respiratoria, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3271-3788
Stefano AlibertiDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0090-4531
Francesco BlasiDepartment of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.
Marc MiravitllesPneumology Department Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Vall d'Hebron Institut de Recerca, Vall d'Hebron Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9850-9520
Alberto PapiRespiratory Medicine, Department of Translation Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6924-4500

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID39872389
PMCPMC11770761

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