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ArticleThe European respiratory journal2026

Reply to: Is the role of eosinophils in refractory chronic cough truly dismissed? Mepolizumab reduced blood and sputum eosinophils, but not eosinophil-derived neurotoxin.

Christiane Whetstone, Nermin Diab, Danica Brister, Elena Kum, Mustafaa Wahab, Wafa Hassan, Sue Beaudin, Catie Obminski, Jennifer Wattie, Lesley Wiltshire and 8 more

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Article in The European respiratory journal, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Christiane WhetstoneDepartment of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Nermin DiabDepartment of Medicine and Research Institute of the McGill University Health System, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Danica BristerDepartment of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Elena KumDepartment of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Mustafaa WahabDepartment of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-0602-3614
Wafa HassanDepartment of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1461-4367
Sue BeaudinDepartment of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Catie ObminskiDepartment of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Jennifer WattieDepartment of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Lesley WiltshireDepartment of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Karen HowieDepartment of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Kieran KillianDepartment of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Kimberley HoltDivision of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0413-8085
Roma SehmiDepartment of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0968-6304
Jaclyn A SmithDivision of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8837-4928
Paul M O'ByrneDepartment of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0979-281X
Imran SatiaDepartment of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada satiai@mcmaster.ca.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4206-6000
Gail M GauvreauDepartment of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6187-2385

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID42097671
PMCPMC13150355

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