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ArticleChest2025

Mucus Plugs and COPD Exacerbations: An Emerging Therapeutic Target.

Sofia K Mettler, Alejandro A Diaz

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Article in Chest, 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

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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

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

2 authors.

Sofia K MettlerDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.
Alejandro A DiazDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA. Electronic address: adiaz6@bwh.harvad.edu.

Funding

Clinical Implications, Genomics, and Transcriptions of Mucus Plugging in SmokersR01HL149861 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI CHO, MICHAEL H., DIAZ, ALEJANDRO · 2020 to 2023
$3.2M
Understanding airway mucus dysfunction in population-based studiesR01HL164824 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI DIAZ, ALEJANDRO · 2022 to 2025
$2.7M
Clinical implications and Proteomics of Bronchiectasis Progression in SmokersR01HL173017 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI Alejandro Diaz, Raul San Jose Estepar · 2024 to 2026
$2.6M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL149861NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL164824NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL173017
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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PMID40935538
PMCPMC12825311

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