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ReviewNature reviews. Rheumatology2025

Emerging therapies for the treatment of systemic sclerosis.

Jörg H W Distler, Masataka Kuwana, Shervin Assassi, Christopher P Denton

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Review in Nature reviews. Rheumatology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

4 authors.

Jörg H W Distler *Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany. joerg.distler@med.uni-duesseldorf.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7408-9333
Masataka Kuwana *Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Nippon Medical School Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8352-6136
Shervin Assassi *Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, UTHealth Houston, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8059-9978
Christopher P Denton *Division of Medicine, Royal Free Campus, University College London, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3975-8938

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease in which fibrotic, vascular, autoimmune and fibrotic mechanisms synergize to promote disease progression. SSc is associated with high morbidity and mortality, primarily owing to fibrotic tissue remodelling and subsequent organ failure. Despite progress with the approval of novel therapies, mortality remains high; approximately half of the people diagnosed with SSc will succumb to disease. This statistic highlights the considerable need for novel, effective therapies. Indeed, SSc has become a disease with very active drug development. Numerous drugs with different modes of actions are currently evaluated in or are about to enter clinical trials in SSc. These clinical trials provide hope for effectively slowing or even halting the progression of fibrosis and thereby further improving outcomes for patients with SSc.

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Scleroderma, SystemicDisease ProgressionFibrosisHumans

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.