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Record W4409238130 · doi:10.33844/cjm.2025.6045

Life-Threatening Effects of Bronchiolitis Related to Electronic Cigarette Use

2025· article· en· W4409238130 on OpenAlex
Immanuel Sani

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Medicine · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicPediatric health and respiratory diseases
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBronchiolitisElectronic cigaretteMedicineIntensive care medicineInternal medicineRespiratory systemPathology

Abstract

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Bronchiolitis, characterized by inflammation of the bronchioles, presents significant health risks, particularly to infants, the elderly, and those with preexisting respiratory conditions. Traditionally associated with viral infections, bronchiolitis has recently been linked to electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use, a trend that has surged in popularity over the past decade. While e-cigarettes are often marketed as safer alternatives to traditional smoking and are seen as viable tools for smoking cessation, emerging evidence suggests they may contribute to the onset or exacerbation of bronchiolitis and other respiratory conditions.To address these concerns, we recommend a prescription model for e-cigarettes, particularly in the context of smoking cessation. This model would involve prescribing the minimum effective dose of e-liquid, tailored to individual factors such as age, gender, and health status, to reduce the risk of adverse effects. Additionally, developing a screening tool to assess the risk of e-cigarette or vaping-associated lung injury (EVALI) is crucial before recommending e-cigarettes as a cessation aid. Furthermore, we propose the implementation of a physical alert system, similar to those used for steroid or anticoagulant medications, to track the specific substances in e-liquids. This would aid clinicians in swift diagnosis and management. As the e-cigarette market continues to grow, careful regulation and further research are essential to prevent the public health consequences seen in the tobacco industry.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.011
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.088
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.011
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.359
Teacher spread0.340 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it