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Effect of carbocisteine on patients with COPD: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, August 2017
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Title
Effect of carbocisteine on patients with COPD: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, August 2017
DOI 10.2147/copd.s140603
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Zheng Zeng, Dan Yang, Xiaoling Huang, Zhenliang Xiao

Abstract

COPD is the fourth leading cause of death in the world. It is a common, progressive, treatable and preventable disease. The exacerbation of COPD is associated with the peripheral muscle force, forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1), the quality of life and mortality. Many studies indicated that the mucoactive medicines could reduce the exacerbations of COPD. This study summarized the efficacy of carbocisteine as a treatment for COPD. We searched the randomized controlled trials (RCTs) following electronic bibliographic databases: MedLine, Embase, Cochrane Library and Web of Science. We additionally searched gray literature database: OpenSIGLE. We also additionally searched the clinical trial registers: ClinicalTrials.gov register and International Clinical Trials Registry Platform Search Portal. We used RCTs to assess the efficacy of the treatments. We included studies of adults (older than 18 years) with COPD. We excluded studies that were published as protocol or written in non-English language (Number 42016047078). Our findings included data from four studies involving 1,357 patients. There was a decrease in the risk of the rate of total number of exacerbations with carbocisteine compared with placebo (-0.43; 95% confidence interval [CI] -0.57, -0.29, P<0.01). Carbocisteine could also improve the quality of life (-6.29; 95% CI -9.30, -3.27) and reduce the number of patients with at least one exacerbation (0.86; 95% CI 0.78, 0.95) compared with placebo. There was no significant difference in the FEV1 and adverse effects and the rate of hospitalization. Long-term use of carbocisteine (500 mg TID) may be associated with lower exacerbation rates, the smaller number of patients with at least one exacerbation and higher quality of life of patients with COPD.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 73 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 15%
Student > Bachelor 10 14%
Researcher 5 7%
Student > Postgraduate 5 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 5%
Other 14 19%
Unknown 24 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 22 30%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 13 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3%
Unspecified 1 1%
Other 5 7%
Unknown 26 36%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 September 2022.
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#2,278,112
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
#203
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#42,404
of 327,503 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
#6
of 78 outputs
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