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ReviewRespiratory research2025

Toward precision medicine in COPD: phenotypes, endotypes, biomarkers, and treatable traits.

Cong Xie, Kepeng Wang, Kai Yang, Yuanyuan Zhong, Aman Gul, Weihang Luo, Maimaititusun Yalikun, Jiemin He, Wenjing Chen, Weifang Xu and 1 more

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Review in Respiratory research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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48citing papers in PubMed, 4 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

48 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines 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

11 authors.

Cong Xie *Institutes of Integrative Medicine, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China.
Kepeng Wang *Shenzhen Hospital (Futian) of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, 518034, China.
Kai Yang *Institutes of Integrative Medicine, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China.
Yuanyuan ZhongDepartment of Integrated Traditional Chinese & Western Medicine, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410011, China.
Aman GulDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Uyghur Medicines Hospital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Urumqi, 830049, China.
Weihang LuoInstitutes of Integrative Medicine, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China.
Maimaititusun YalikunInstitutes of Integrative Medicine, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China.
Jiemin HeInstitutes of Integrative Medicine, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China.
Wenjing ChenInstitutes of Integrative Medicine, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China.
Weifang XuShenzhen Hospital (Futian) of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, 518034, China. 2487317006@qq.com.
Jingcheng DongInstitutes of Integrative Medicine, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China. jcdong2004@126.com.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 82474264
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a heterogeneous disorder characterized by diverse clinical manifestations, pathophysiological mechanisms, and therapeutic responses. This review explores the evolving landscape of precision medicine in COPD management, with particular emphasis on optimizing patient care through the integration of phenotypes, endotypes, biomarkers, and treatable traits. Phenotypic classification based on observable clinical and radiographic features has facilitated the identification of distinct subgroups such as "emphysema-dominant" or "frequent-exacerbator" subtypes. Emerging research, however, increasingly emphasizes endotypes-disease subcategories defined by unique biological mechanisms including neutrophilic inflammation, eosinophilic airway involvement, or α

Indexed as

Precision MedicinePulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveBiomarkersHumansPhenotypeBiomarkersBiomarkerChronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)EndotypePhenotypePrecision medicineTargeted therapiesTreatable traits

Identifiers

PMID41024111
PMCPMC12482825

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