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Molecular hydrogen is associated with immunophenotypic modulation and changes in T-cell exhaustion markers in refractory primary Sjögren’s syndrome-associated interstitial lung disease: A case report

Hsu WH, Lu JW, Ho YJ, Lui SW, Hsieh TY, Wang KY, Liu FC. · SAGE open medical case reports. 2026;14:2050313X261454858.

HumanOther formsPublished 2026
Study record, not medical adviceThis page reports one source and Hydrogenology’s source-text extraction. It does not establish that molecular hydrogen is effective, safe or appropriate for any person. Human, animal and laboratory evidence must not be treated as equivalent.
Source and classification

What kind of evidence is this?

Evidence stream

Human

Reported design

Case report

Research topic

Respiratory health

Administration classification

Other forms

Study result signal

Not reported in this record.

Outcome type

Not reported in this record.

Reported in the source

Methods at a glance

Population or model

Human participants studied for respiratory health. See eligibility criteria in the linked full text.

Sample

Human study; the article does not state one consolidated sample total, so no total is inferred.

Duration

8 months

Intervention

Full text reports an oral H₂-generating preparation. Detected intervention quantities or schedules: 45%, 47%, 55%, 8 months, 14.3%, 2.9%, 26.2%, 12.2%, 4.7%, 19.0%.

Hydrogen form

an oral H₂-generating preparation — H₂ only unless the full text explicitly reports oxygen co-delivery.

H₂ specification

H₂-related quantities reported in the intervention passages: 45%, 47%, 55%, 8 months, 14.3%, 2.9%, 26.2%, 12.2%, 4.7%, 19.0%. Values are not combined across different experimental arms.

H₂ flow

Not applicable — no inhaled H₂ intervention was identified in the full article.

O₂ delivered with H₂

No inhaled O₂ co-delivery was identified for this non-inhalation intervention.

Comparator

Control or comparison condition reported in the full article; see the linked methods for arm-specific details.

Reported, not endorsed

Outcomes and reported result

Outcomes measured

survival or mortality, clinical symptoms or functional scores, tumor growth or cancer markers, inflammation and cytokines, oxidative-stress and antioxidant markers, apoptosis or cell injury

Reported result

Article-reported result excerpt (24 words maximum): “Conversely, DLCO showed a gradual and sustained improvement over the observation period (45%, 47%, 55%), with an upward trend continuing after the initiation of…” This excerpt is not a complete result summary; consult the linked full text for all positive and null findings.

Results-extraction completeness

The complete machine-readable article was checked for source identity, methods, intervention quantities, results, tables, funding and conflict declarations. This public record is based on the full article.

A reported association, difference or mechanism is not automatically a clinical benefit. Null findings, outcome type, study design and precision all matter.

Interpretation limits

Cautions and applicability

Design and reporting cautions

Human evidence; design, sample size and comparator limit interpretation. No funding statement was identified in the machine-readable full article; absence is not inferred. No explicit conflict statement was identified in the machine-readable full article; absence is not inferred.

Applies directly to

Applies only to the population and protocol reported in this respiratory health article.

Preliminary appraisal framework

Not reported in this record.

Preliminary risk-of-bias status

Not reported in this record.

Appraisal rationale

Not reported in this record.

No single-study GRADE certainty rating is assigned. Certainty is assessed by important outcome across a complete eligible evidence set, not by attaching a final grade to one source.

Provenance

Sources and record status

Identifiers

PMID: 42255997 · DOI: 10.1177/2050313x261454858

Publisher access

A free full article is available through PubMed Central.

Extraction basis

Official Europe PMC JATS full article and PubMed/PMC identifiers; structured full-text extraction and validation completed 8 August 2026.

Record revision

2026-08-10