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The Epidemiology of Chronic Urticaria in Cape Town, South Africa: A Review of Two Tertiary Referral Centers.

Cascia Day, Mimi Deetlefs, Lovemore Mapahla, Yejin Jang, Qiqa Gusha-Mhlekude, Sicelo Ntuli, Balican Hlungwani, Susanna Kannenberg, Emma Kruger, Ndapewa Ambondo and 4 more

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Article in Allergy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Cascia DayDivision of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8090-3861
Mimi DeetlefsDivision of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Lovemore MapahlaThe Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0146-3299
Yejin JangDivision of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Qiqa Gusha-MhlekudeAllergy and Immunology Unit, University of Cape Town Lung Institute, Cape Town, South Africa.
Sicelo NtuliDivision of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Balican HlungwaniDivision of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Susanna KannenbergFaculty of Health Sciences, Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa.
Emma KrugerFaculty of Health Sciences, Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5079-211X
Ndapewa AmbondoFaculty of Health Sciences, Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa.
Willem VisserFaculty of Health Sciences, Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa.
Thuraya IsaacsFaculty of Health Sciences, Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Rannakoe LehloenyaFaculty of Health Sciences, Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Jonny PeterDivision of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2658-0723

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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angioedemaclinical immunologyepidemiologyurticaria

Identifiers

PMID40162584
PMCPMC12368737

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