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The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect.\n\nThe conclusion is that Hyperbaric oxygen remains a bounded geroscience case: the retained clinical and mechanistic evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim.\n\n## Methods\n\n### Review type and protocol\nThis manuscript is reported as a Thin-corpus evidence brief. A deterministic protocol governed source retrieval, screening, extraction, and synthesis; the protocol was frozen before manuscript rendering. The full audit trail is in the supplementary `methods_pack.json` and the timestamped submission directory `synthesis-hyperbaric_oxygen_hbot-v06-DAILY-2026-06-23T08-22-05Z-R2`.\n\n### Information sources\nSources were retrieved across PubMed, Europe PMC, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, DOAJ, OpenAIRE, PMC OAI, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, and ClinicalTrials.gov. Retrieval window: 2026-06-23.\n\n### Search strategy\nThe following topic-anchored queries were executed against the information sources listed above:\n\n- `hyperbaric oxygen therapy AND aging`\n- `HBOT AND telomere AND senescence`\n- `hyperbaric oxygen AND cognition AND older adults`\n- `HBOT AND safety AND randomized trial`\n- `hyperbaric oxygen AND anti-aging`\n\n### Eligibility criteria\n- Sources whose primary content addresses hyperbaric oxygen hbot.\n- Sources with extractable quantitative or qualitative findings.\n- Peer-reviewed primary research, systematic reviews, or meta-analyses; preprints accepted only when source-traceable.\n- Sources with verifiable bibliographic identifiers (DOI / PMID / canonical handle).\n\n### Selection of sources of evidence\nThe synthesis did not begin from an unfiltered database export. It began from a pre-curated receipt-candidate set generated by the retrieval and claim-binding pipeline. Of 165 records in the receipt-candidate union, 45 were classified as source candidates and 29 were admitted as traceable synthesis sources. Mixed partial-or-none and partial-only rows are separate claim-binding audit buckets, not additive exclusion totals. No additional records were excluded after final source admission.\n\n### source admission funnel\n\n| Admission bucket | n |\n|---|---:|\n| Receipt candidate union | 165 |\n| Classified source candidates | 45 |\n| No extractable claims | 38 |\n| None-only claim binding | 11 |\n| Mixed partial-or-none claim-binding candidates | 45 |\n| Partial-only claim-binding candidates | 22 |\n| Strict high-confidence sources | 4 |\n| Admitted final sources | 29 |\n\n### Exclusion reasons\n- No records were excluded at the gates instrumented for this run: the eligibility criteria above were applied during retrieval and claim-binding but produced no post-screening exclusions with recorded counts for this corpus.\n\n### Data items\nThe following fields were extracted from each included source: study design, population / cohort, intervention or exposure, comparator, outcome class, effect direction, effect size, confidence interval or credible interval, p-value, sample size, follow-up duration, risk-of-bias rating. Under the calibration rule, source verification in the public bundle is limited to reference-level metadata; exact statistics and effect directions are drawn from these structured extraction artifacts (the synthesis manifest, risk-of-bias sidecar when populated, and claim registry) rather than from re-parsed full text.\n\n### Risk-of-bias appraisal\nRisk-of-bias framework assignment follows study design (RoB-2 for RCTs, ROBINS-I for non-randomised studies, AMSTAR-2 for systematic reviews / meta-analyses). Public appraisal claims are limited to populated `risk_of_bias.json` rows; when no populated ratings are present, interpretation remains bounded by source tier and directness rather than formal RoB certification.\n\n### Synthesis approach\nEvidence-tension synthesis: claims grouped by outcome class (contextual adjacent evidence, deficiency prevalence, immune and inflammation, safety and comorbidity); within-class agreement, disagreement, and directness gaps surfaced explicitly. Quantitative pooling applied only where ≥3 sources reported a comparable endpoint with extractable effect estimates.\n\n### AI-use disclosure\nSource retrieval, claim extraction, evidence routing, and prose drafting were assisted by large language models under a deterministic audit-trail protocol. Every manuscript claim is traceable to a source record in the supplementary `manifest.json`. Final eligibility and interpretation decisions are author-verified.\n\n### Accountability\nAccountability is established through reproducible artifacts: a deterministic protocol (`methods_pack.json`), a complete claim and citation registry, extracted numeric trace, deterministic gates (`full_paper.journal_surface.json`, `pre_submit_gate.json`, `artifact_consistency.json`), and a versioned correction path documented in the run's submission record. Certification under the `researka_agent_certified` model verifies that the manuscript is machine-verifiable, internally consistent, provenance-traced, and format-checked against these artifacts; it does not adjudicate domain correctness, corpus fit, or novelty, which remain subject to expert and reader review.\n\n## Results\n\n**Outcome-class note:** Contextual Adjacent Evidence denotes background, boundary-condition, or adjacent-outcome sources. It is not pooled with direct outcome evidence; these sources bound scope, safety, methods, and translation rather than serving as equal-weight support for the main efficacy claim.\n\n| Evidence domain | Corpus slice | Strongest signal | Directness | Main limitation |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| Contextual Adjacent Evidence | n=20; claims=474 | no extracted directional signal in 15/20 sources | 1 direct; 13 indirect; 6 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Safety and Comorbidity | n=4; claims=110 | no extracted directional signal in 3/4 sources | 1 direct; 2 indirect; 1 protocol | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Immune and Inflammation | n=3; claims=38 | no extracted directional signal in 3/3 sources | 1 indirect; 2 mechanistic | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Deficiency Prevalence | n=2; claims=115 | no extracted directional signal in 2/2 sources | 2 indirect | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n\nThis evidence brief reports outcome packets as a map of retained evidence rather than as a full journal Results narrative or pooled effect estimate.\n\n### Contextual Adjacent Evidence Outcomes\n\n20 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: mixed=1, null=15, positive=2, unclear=2. Directness coding: direct=1, indirect=13, review=6.\n\n### Safety Comorbidity Outcomes\n\nEvidence for this outcome class is represented in the structured results table, but the retained narrative paragraphs were more strongly assigned to adjacent outcome classes. The synthesis therefore treats this class as context for cross-domain interpretation rather than as a standalone prose claim.\n\n### Deficiency Prevalence Outcomes\n\n2 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=2. Directness coding: indirect=2.\n\n### Immune Inflammation Outcomes\n\n2 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=2. Directness coding: indirect=1, mechanistic=1.\n\n1 included source were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1. Directness coding: mechanistic=1.\n\n### Immune Outcomes\n\nSee the structured evidence table for Immune Outcomes signals.\n\n## Limitations\n\n**Verification note:** Reference-only or no-abstract records are treated as verification-limited context, not as equal-weight support for the main claim.\n\nThe corpus scope constrains how far the present conclusions can travel. Curated entries on rheumatic and immune disease (Fang 2025), myocardial and spinal-cord mechanisms (Pindovic 2026; Peng 2025), and aging-relevant vascular biology (Balasubramanian 2021) are predominantly mechanistic or preclinical, so the absence of a definitive RCT for these indications is itself a corpus-level limit, not just a topic-level gap.\n\nA second limitation is single-trial generalization. Several clinically relevant findings rest on a single source and therefore cannot be cross-checked within the corpus. When an outcome is touched by only one source, the synthesized direction can be replicated only by appealing to evidence outside the corpus, and the directional code (e. For example, positive in Wang 2025, positive in Xu 2026) cannot be triangulated against an independent trial — a constraint the existing meta-analyses in the set (Fujita 2026; Astasio-Picado 2026) do not fully neutralize because they pool overlapping primary studies rather than independent replications.\n\nA fourth limitation is endpoint scope. Hard clinical endpoints — mortality, hospitalization, major adverse cardiovascular events, incident frailty, incident disability, and incident dementia — are not reported in primary form in any source, and the only long-horizon signal (Balasubramanian 2021) is a narrative synthesis on vascular cognitive impairment rather than a trial-derived incidence estimate. The methodological caution that surrogate associations do not guarantee hard-outcome validity (Ioannidis 2005) applies directly, and the endpoint ceiling is one the present corpus cannot itself resolve.\n\nA fifth limitation is the mechanism-to-clinic gap. There is no curative human RCT in this corpus for Parkinson's disease with cognitive dysfunction (Tancredi-style risk not assessable; the only entry is a protocol, Tan 2024), no long-term randomized data in central retinal artery occlusion beyond the pooled estimate in Bakdalieh 2026, and no adequately powered trial in non-specific age-related vascular decline. The cross-study disagreement count — operationally defined here as any two sources within the same outcome class with opposing directional codes or non-overlapping confidence intervals — totals approximately 75 such pairings in the curated cross-study disagreement map, and that high disagreement rate, against a mechanistic-but-sparse-clinical backdrop, means the present corpus cannot by itself adjudicate whether the mechanistic plausibility translates into clinically meaningful benefit for an aging population.\n\n## Conclusion\n\nFor Hyperbaric oxygen, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and mechanistic evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation.The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging.\n\n## What This Synthesis Adds\n\nThis synthesis maps 29 included sources on Hyperbaric Oxygen Hbot across 5 outcome classes and cross-study disagreements. It separates endpoint-specific evidence from broad geroprotection claims so that favorable biomarker signals are not treated as proof of durable healthspan benefit.\n\nAcross 29 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Hyperbaric shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: contextual other. Null findings dominate: contextual other, safety comorbidity. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. The Hyperbaric anti-aging case as currently constituted is incomplete: mechanistic plausibility coexists with mixed or sparse human-RCT evidence, and the boundary conditions remain to be established.\n\nThe strongest unresolved contrast is the null vs positive between Wu 2024 and Wang 2025 on contextual adjacent evidence (severity 4/5), which defines the boundary condition future studies must test rather than smooth over.\n\nPrior reviews in the corpus (Wang 2025, Molina-Vega 2026) emphasize convergent signals on Hyperbaric Oxygen Hbot. This synthesis adds a design-level evidence-weighting layer and an explicit cross-study disagreement map, keeping boundary conditions visible instead of averaging them away in narrative summary.\n\n### Boundary-Condition Matrix\n\n| Evidence domain | Direct sources | Indirect / mechanism sources | Direction profile | Interpretation boundary |\n|---|---:|---:|---|---|\n| immune and inflammation | 0 | 1 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| deficiency prevalence | 0 | 2 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| immune and inflammation | 0 | 2 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| contextual adjacent evidence | 1 | 19 | mixed, null, positive, unclear | conflict-resolution gap |\n| safety and comorbidity | 1 | 3 | null, unclear | replication gap |\n\n### Evidence-Gap Priority\n\n| Priority | Gap | Rationale |\n|---|---|---|\n| P1 | immune and inflammation: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 1 indirect source; direction profile: null |\n| P2 | deficiency prevalence: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 2 indirect sources; direction profile: null |\n| P3 | immune and inflammation: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 2 indirect sources; direction profile: null |\n| P4 | contextual adjacent evidence: conflict-resolution gap | 1 direct and 19 indirect sources; direction profile: mixed, null, positive, unclear |\n| P5 | safety and comorbidity: replication gap | 1 direct and 3 indirect sources; direction profile: null, unclear |\n\n### Next-Study Design Recommendation\n\nThe next high-yield study for Hyperbaric Oxygen Hbot should target the **immune and inflammation** evidence gap, pre-register the primary endpoint, separate clinical from mechanistic endpoints, preserve safety and adherence capture, and include an analysis plan that can falsify the current boundary-condition claim rather than only confirming a favorable direction. Minimum useful design: at least 200 participants per arm, a priority population of adults or older adults with baseline risk in the target outcome domain, and follow-up lasting at least 12 months; shorter or smaller studies should be treated as hypothesis-generating.\n\n## Evidence Snapshot\n\nThe manuscript foregrounds the load-bearing evidence; the full evidence tables remain in the supplement.\n\n### Load-Bearing Included Studies\n\n- Nikolic 2026; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=safety comorbidity; direction=null.\n- Neto 2026; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=p≤0.02.\n- Wang 2025; tier=B1; directness=review; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=positive; representative statistic=P < 0.00001.\n- Molina-Vega 2026; tier=B1; directness=review; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=mixed; representative statistic=P < 0.005.\n- Aykut 2025; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=deficiency prevalence; direction=null; representative statistic=P = 0.120.\n- Lee 2025; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=P = 0.070.\n- Rong 2026; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=deficiency prevalence; direction=null.\n- Kim 2026; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=P = 0.136.\n- Iaconetta 2026; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.\n- Alp 2026; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=P = 0.216.\n\n### Source Classification Map\n\nEach retained source is mapped to its public evidence role so the evidence landscape can be checked without opening the supplement.\n\n- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers: A Prospective Randomised Controlled Trial: outcome=safety comorbidity; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=null; claims=75.\n- HOTFy: randomised clinical trial for hyperbaric oxygen therapy in fibromyalgia: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=null; claims=64.\n- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for radiation enteritis and clinical parameters: a systematic review and meta-analysis: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B1; direction=positive; claims=40.\n- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Burn Care: A Systematic Review of Current Evidence: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B1; direction=mixed; claims=20.\n- Serum lactate and carboxyhemoglobin as predictors of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in carbon monoxide poisoning: a retrospective study: outcome=deficiency prevalence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=69.\n- Risk Factors for Middle Ear Barotrauma in Patients with Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Undergoing Monoplace Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=57.\n- The awakening effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy combined with systematic auditory stimulation in comatose patients with craniocerebral injury and its influence on serum biomarkers: outcome=deficiency prevalence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=46.\n- Phase-Specific Changes in Vital Signs and Electrocardiogram Findings During Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Hemodynamically Stable Patients: A Prospective Observational Study: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=44.\n- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Traumatic and Non-Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries: Insights from Nearly Five Decades of Evidence with Single-Center Experience: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=37.\n- Do Different Durations of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Affect the Microleakage of Bulk-Fill Composites?: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=35.\n- Clinical efficacy and mechanisms of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the treatment of rheumatic and immune diseases: outcome=immune inflammation; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=35.\n- Optimizing hyperbaric oxygen initiation time in carbon monoxide poisoning: a 3-hour window enhances neurological recovery via lactate clearance: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=positive; claims=33.\n- Hematological safety of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in oncology: Stratified analysis by chemotherapy and herbal medicine use: outcome=safety comorbidity; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=27.\n- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy improves post-concussion symptoms in adults with childhood traumatic brain injury: a retrospective cohort study: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=26.\n- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in the Treatment of Crohn’s Disease: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=24.\n- The effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on sleep quality across diverse patient populations: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=23.\n- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Versus Intravenous Thrombolysis in the Treatment of Central Retinal Artery Occlusion: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=22.\n- Evaluating the Efficacy of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Acute Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=20.\n- Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy on Cerebral Activity in Stroke Patients Based on fNIRS: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=11.\n- Adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen therapy for chronic diabetic foot ulcer unresponsive to standard care: A case report: outcome=safety comorbidity; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=6.\n- Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Combined with Music Therapy on Brain Function and Mental Health of Patients with Aneurismal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Retrospective Study: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=6.\n- Comparative Evidence on Negative Pressure Therapy and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Diabetic Foot Ulcers: A Systematic Review of Independent Effectiveness and Clinical Applicability: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=5.\n- 1004. Case Study. Multimodal Plantar Reconstruction Using Dermal Substitutes, Hyperbaric Oxygen, and Negative Pressure Wound Therapy: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=3.\n- Rapid Initiation of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Multiple Simultaneous Cases of Acute Carbon Monoxide Poisoning at a Single Center: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=2.\n- Integrative Role of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy on Healthspan, Age-Related Vascular Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=1.\n- 825. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Burn Care: A Systematic Review of Current Evidence: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=1.\n- Application of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the treatment of spinal cord injury: insights from preclinical to clinical evidence: outcome=immune; directness=mechanistic; tier=C1; direction=null; claims=2.\n- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Experimental Autoimmune Myocarditis: Insights from Preclinical Models to Translational Perspectives: outcome=immune inflammation; directness=mechanistic; tier=C1; direction=null; claims=1.\n- Efficacy and safety of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for Parkinson’s disease with cognitive dysfunction: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis: outcome=safety comorbidity; directness=protocol; tier=D1; direction=null; claims=2.\n\n### Classification Criteria\n\n- **Outcome class** is assigned from the source's bound endpoint, population, and claim text; adjacent/background sources are separated from clinical outcome slices.\n- **Directness** is coded as direct only when a source tests the topic against a clinically proximate outcome in the relevant population; a qualifying direct source would be a human interventional or hard-endpoint study of the topic itself. Indirect human, review-level, and mechanistic sources are weighted separately.\n- **Directional signal** is counted within the assigned outcome class only. A `no extracted directional signal` cell means the retained sources in that outcome slice did not yield a coded positive, negative, or mixed direction for that slice; it is not a claim that the source reports no associations anywhere else.\n- **Evidence tier** follows the deterministic tier/directness taxonomy used in the source builder; the prose writer cannot move a source between classes after sources are frozen.\n\n### Load-Bearing Tensions\n\n- Severity 4 null vs positive: Wu 2024 vs Wang 2025; Wang 2025 (positive on contextual other) vs Wu 2024 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict\n- Severity 4 null vs positive: Wu 2024 vs Xu 2026; Xu 2026 (positive on contextual other) vs Wu 2024 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict\n- Severity 4 null vs positive: Lee 2025 vs Wang 2025; Wang 2025 (positive on contextual other) vs Lee 2025 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict\n- Severity 4 null vs positive: Lee 2025 vs Xu 2026; Xu 2026 (positive on contextual other) vs Lee 2025 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict\n- Severity 4 null vs positive: Shlifer 2025 vs Wang 2025; Wang 2025 (positive on contextual other) vs Shlifer 2025 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict\n- Severity 4 null vs positive: Shlifer 2025 vs Xu 2026; Xu 2026 (positive on contextual other) vs Shlifer 2025 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict\n- Severity 4 null vs positive: Wang 2025 vs Kurokawa 2025; Wang 2025 (positive on contextual other) vs Kurokawa 2025 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict\n- Severity 4 null vs positive: Wang 2025 vs Astasio-Picado 2026; Wang 2025 (positive on contextual other) vs Astasio-Picado 2026 (null on contextual other) — partial conflict\n\nAdditional corpus sources informed the synthesis without anchoring a foregrounded quantitative claim and are catalogued for completeness: Woo 2025, Krstulovic 2025, Doenyas-Barak 2026, Zhang 2026, Adi 2026, Sanders 2026, Molina-Vega 2026b.\n\n## References\n\n- **Nikolic 2026.** _Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers: A Prospective Randomised Controlled Trial._ International Wound Journal, 2026. 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PMID: 40969214.\n- **Krstulovic 2025.** _Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in the Treatment of Crohn’s Disease._ Healthcare, 2025. DOI: 10.3390/healthcare13020128. PMID: 39857155.\n- **Doenyas-Barak 2026.** _The effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on sleep quality across diverse patient populations._ Frontiers in Neurology, 2026. DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2026.1690633. PMID: 41982416.\n- **Bakdalieh 2026.** _Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Versus Intravenous Thrombolysis in the Treatment of Central Retinal Artery Occlusion: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis._ Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2026. DOI: 10.3390/jcm15072628. PMID: 41976928.\n- **Fujita 2026.** _Evaluating the Efficacy of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Acute Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis._ Acute Medicine & Surgery, 2026. DOI: 10.1002/ams2.70114. 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Intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis was conducted with all 56 participants (mean age: 51.0±9.8 years; mean body mass index: 30.5±5.1 kg/m²).","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Risk Factors for Middle Ear Barotrauma in Patients with Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Undergoing Monoplace Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study","year":2025,"doi":"10.3390/jcm14092984","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14092984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Lee 2025","excerpt":"Background : Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is the standard treatment for moderate to severe carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning, but middle ear barotrauma (MEB) remains a common complication. This study identified risk factors associated with MEB in patients undergoing monoplace HBOT. Methods : This retrospective cohort study included patients treated for CO poisoning with monoplace HBOT at a tertiary academic hospital between May 2021 and December 2023. MEB severity was assessed before and after treatment using video otoscopy and graded according to the modified O'Neill Grading System. Results : MEB occurred predominantly at lower severity grades according to the O'Neill scale. In univariate analysis, significant risk factors for MEB included altered mental status at presentation (OR: 3.16, 95% CI: 1.35-7.40, p = 0.008), serum albumin > 4.3 g/dL (OR: 0.22, 95% CI: 0.10-0.65, p = 0.004), and magnesium levels (OR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05-0.98, p = 0.046). Multivariate analysis confirmed altered mental status (OR: 3.16, 95% CI: 1.05-9.52, p = 0.041), albumin > 4.3 g/dL (OR: 0.26, 95% CI: 0.10-0.65, p = 0.004), and magnesium level (OR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05-0.88, p = 0.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The awakening effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy combined with systematic auditory stimulation in comatose patients with craniocerebral injury and its influence on serum biomarkers","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Rong 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) often results in prolonged coma and significant long-term disability. Evidence-based, widely accessible approaches to accelerate recovery of consciousness remain limited. This study evaluated whether adding a combined regimen of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) and systematic auditory stimulation (SAS) to standard neurosurgical care improves recovery of consciousness and short-term outcomes in comatose patients with sTBI. METHODS: In this prospective randomized controlled trial, 89 comatose patients with sTBI [Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) < 8] were randomized to standard neurosurgical care (control, n = 44) or standard care in addition to HBOT and SAS (HBOT+SAS, n = 45). HBOT was delivered at a pressure of 2.0 atmospheres absolute (ATA) for 60 min/session, five sessions per week for 4 weeks. SAS consisted of structured family-delivered storytelling and music sessions three times daily following a predefined schedule. 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Although carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) levels are traditionally used to confirm exposure, they often fail to reflect clinical severity. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of serum lactate and hematological parameters in predicting the need for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) among patients with acute CO poisoning. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This retrospective cross-sectional study included 292 adult patients with confirmed CO poisoning admitted to a tertiary emergency department between 2020 and 2024. Patients were categorized according to HBOT administration. Laboratory values including lactate, COHb, and hematologic parameters and indices were analyzed. Multivariable logistic regression and ROC curve analysis were used to assess predictive performance. RESULTS: Of the 292 patients, 94 (32.2%) received HBOT. Serum lactate and COHb were significantly higher in the HBOT group (p < 0.001 for both) and were identified as independent predictors of HBOT requirement (lactate OR = 2.04; COHb OR = 1.32). AUC for lactate alone was 0.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"HOTFy: randomised clinical trial for hyperbaric oxygen therapy in fibromyalgia","year":2026,"doi":"10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112284","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112284","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Neto 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Fibromyalgia is a polysymptomatic central sensitisation disorder characterised by widespread pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances and neuropsychiatric features. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy modulates neuroinflammation, mitochondrial function and neuroplasticity, thereby yielding analgesic and functional benefits. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the efficacy and optimal timing of hyperbaric oxygen therapy as an adjunct to standard care for fibromyalgia. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: This single-centre, randomised, cross-over group, assessor-blinded clinical trial was conducted in the Department of Rheumatology at the University Hospital of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil, and adhered to Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guidelines. Women (18-70 years) with a diagnosis of fibromyalgia for ≥2 years were randomised 1:1 to early hyperbaric oxygen therapy plus standard care or standard care alone (delayed group). Intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis was conducted with all 56 participants (mean age: 51.0±9.8 years; mean body mass index: 30.5±5.1 kg/m²).","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Risk Factors for Middle Ear Barotrauma in Patients with Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Undergoing Monoplace Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study","year":2025,"doi":"10.3390/jcm14092984","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14092984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Lee 2025","excerpt":"Background : Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is the standard treatment for moderate to severe carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning, but middle ear barotrauma (MEB) remains a common complication. This study identified risk factors associated with MEB in patients undergoing monoplace HBOT. Methods : This retrospective cohort study included patients treated for CO poisoning with monoplace HBOT at a tertiary academic hospital between May 2021 and December 2023. MEB severity was assessed before and after treatment using video otoscopy and graded according to the modified O'Neill Grading System. Results : MEB occurred predominantly at lower severity grades according to the O'Neill scale. In univariate analysis, significant risk factors for MEB included altered mental status at presentation (OR: 3.16, 95% CI: 1.35-7.40, p = 0.008), serum albumin > 4.3 g/dL (OR: 0.22, 95% CI: 0.10-0.65, p = 0.004), and magnesium levels (OR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05-0.98, p = 0.046). Multivariate analysis confirmed altered mental status (OR: 3.16, 95% CI: 1.05-9.52, p = 0.041), albumin > 4.3 g/dL (OR: 0.26, 95% CI: 0.10-0.65, p = 0.004), and magnesium level (OR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05-0.88, p = 0.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The awakening effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy combined with systematic auditory stimulation in comatose patients with craniocerebral injury and its influence on serum biomarkers","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Rong 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) often results in prolonged coma and significant long-term disability. Evidence-based, widely accessible approaches to accelerate recovery of consciousness remain limited. This study evaluated whether adding a combined regimen of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) and systematic auditory stimulation (SAS) to standard neurosurgical care improves recovery of consciousness and short-term outcomes in comatose patients with sTBI. METHODS: In this prospective randomized controlled trial, 89 comatose patients with sTBI [Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) < 8] were randomized to standard neurosurgical care (control, n = 44) or standard care in addition to HBOT and SAS (HBOT+SAS, n = 45). HBOT was delivered at a pressure of 2.0 atmospheres absolute (ATA) for 60 min/session, five sessions per week for 4 weeks. SAS consisted of structured family-delivered storytelling and music sessions three times daily following a predefined schedule. 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Multivariate analysis confirmed altered mental status (OR: 3.16, 95% CI: 1.05-9.52, p = 0.041), albumin > 4.3 g/dL (OR: 0.26, 95% CI: 0.10-0.65, p = 0.004), and magnesium level (OR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05-0.88, p = 0.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The awakening effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy combined with systematic auditory stimulation in comatose patients with craniocerebral injury and its influence on serum biomarkers","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Rong 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) often results in prolonged coma and significant long-term disability. 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Directness coding: mechanistic=1.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers: A Prospective Randomised Controlled Trial","year":2026,"doi":"10.1111/iwj.70856","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.70856","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Nikolic 2026","excerpt":"HBO group had greater area reduction (62.1% ± 22.1% vs. TcPO 2 increased from 26.1 ± 6.3 to 150.3 ± 45.6 mmHg in HBO group ( p < 0.001).","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Serum lactate and carboxyhemoglobin as predictors of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in carbon monoxide poisoning: a retrospective study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12873-025-01410-w","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-025-01410-w","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Aykut 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a leading cause of toxicological emergencies worldwide. Although carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) levels are traditionally used to confirm exposure, they often fail to reflect clinical severity. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of serum lactate and hematological parameters in predicting the need for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) among patients with acute CO poisoning. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This retrospective cross-sectional study included 292 adult patients with confirmed CO poisoning admitted to a tertiary emergency department between 2020 and 2024. Patients were categorized according to HBOT administration. Laboratory values including lactate, COHb, and hematologic parameters and indices were analyzed. Multivariable logistic regression and ROC curve analysis were used to assess predictive performance. RESULTS: Of the 292 patients, 94 (32.2%) received HBOT. Serum lactate and COHb were significantly higher in the HBOT group (p < 0.001 for both) and were identified as independent predictors of HBOT requirement (lactate OR = 2.04; COHb OR = 1.32). AUC for lactate alone was 0.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"HOTFy: randomised clinical trial for hyperbaric oxygen therapy in fibromyalgia","year":2026,"doi":"10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112284","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112284","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Neto 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Fibromyalgia is a polysymptomatic central sensitisation disorder characterised by widespread pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances and neuropsychiatric features. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy modulates neuroinflammation, mitochondrial function and neuroplasticity, thereby yielding analgesic and functional benefits. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the efficacy and optimal timing of hyperbaric oxygen therapy as an adjunct to standard care for fibromyalgia. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: This single-centre, randomised, cross-over group, assessor-blinded clinical trial was conducted in the Department of Rheumatology at the University Hospital of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil, and adhered to Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guidelines. Women (18-70 years) with a diagnosis of fibromyalgia for ≥2 years were randomised 1:1 to early hyperbaric oxygen therapy plus standard care or standard care alone (delayed group). Intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis was conducted with all 56 participants (mean age: 51.0±9.8 years; mean body mass index: 30.5±5.1 kg/m²).","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Risk Factors for Middle Ear Barotrauma in Patients with Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Undergoing Monoplace Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study","year":2025,"doi":"10.3390/jcm14092984","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14092984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Lee 2025","excerpt":"Background : Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is the standard treatment for moderate to severe carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning, but middle ear barotrauma (MEB) remains a common complication. This study identified risk factors associated with MEB in patients undergoing monoplace HBOT. Methods : This retrospective cohort study included patients treated for CO poisoning with monoplace HBOT at a tertiary academic hospital between May 2021 and December 2023. MEB severity was assessed before and after treatment using video otoscopy and graded according to the modified O'Neill Grading System. Results : MEB occurred predominantly at lower severity grades according to the O'Neill scale. In univariate analysis, significant risk factors for MEB included altered mental status at presentation (OR: 3.16, 95% CI: 1.35-7.40, p = 0.008), serum albumin > 4.3 g/dL (OR: 0.22, 95% CI: 0.10-0.65, p = 0.004), and magnesium levels (OR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05-0.98, p = 0.046). Multivariate analysis confirmed altered mental status (OR: 3.16, 95% CI: 1.05-9.52, p = 0.041), albumin > 4.3 g/dL (OR: 0.26, 95% CI: 0.10-0.65, p = 0.004), and magnesium level (OR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05-0.88, p = 0.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The awakening effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy combined with systematic auditory stimulation in comatose patients with craniocerebral injury and its influence on serum biomarkers","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Rong 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) often results in prolonged coma and significant long-term disability. Evidence-based, widely accessible approaches to accelerate recovery of consciousness remain limited. This study evaluated whether adding a combined regimen of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) and systematic auditory stimulation (SAS) to standard neurosurgical care improves recovery of consciousness and short-term outcomes in comatose patients with sTBI. METHODS: In this prospective randomized controlled trial, 89 comatose patients with sTBI [Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) < 8] were randomized to standard neurosurgical care (control, n = 44) or standard care in addition to HBOT and SAS (HBOT+SAS, n = 45). HBOT was delivered at a pressure of 2.0 atmospheres absolute (ATA) for 60 min/session, five sessions per week for 4 weeks. SAS consisted of structured family-delivered storytelling and music sessions three times daily following a predefined schedule. The primary outcome was the change in the Full Outline of UnResponsiveness (FOUR) score from baseline to Day 28.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_20","claim":"Verification note:** Reference-only or no-abstract records are treated as verification-limited context, not as equal-weight support for the main claim.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers: A Prospective Randomised Controlled Trial","year":2026,"doi":"10.1111/iwj.70856","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.70856","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Nikolic 2026","excerpt":"HBO group had greater area reduction (62.1% ± 22.1% vs. TcPO 2 increased from 26.1 ± 6.3 to 150.3 ± 45.6 mmHg in HBO group ( p < 0.001).","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Serum lactate and carboxyhemoglobin as predictors of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in carbon monoxide poisoning: a retrospective study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12873-025-01410-w","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-025-01410-w","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Aykut 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a leading cause of toxicological emergencies worldwide. Although carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) levels are traditionally used to confirm exposure, they often fail to reflect clinical severity. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of serum lactate and hematological parameters in predicting the need for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) among patients with acute CO poisoning. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This retrospective cross-sectional study included 292 adult patients with confirmed CO poisoning admitted to a tertiary emergency department between 2020 and 2024. Patients were categorized according to HBOT administration. Laboratory values including lactate, COHb, and hematologic parameters and indices were analyzed. Multivariable logistic regression and ROC curve analysis were used to assess predictive performance. RESULTS: Of the 292 patients, 94 (32.2%) received HBOT. Serum lactate and COHb were significantly higher in the HBOT group (p < 0.001 for both) and were identified as independent predictors of HBOT requirement (lactate OR = 2.04; COHb OR = 1.32). AUC for lactate alone was 0.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"HOTFy: randomised clinical trial for hyperbaric oxygen therapy in fibromyalgia","year":2026,"doi":"10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112284","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112284","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Neto 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Fibromyalgia is a polysymptomatic central sensitisation disorder characterised by widespread pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances and neuropsychiatric features. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy modulates neuroinflammation, mitochondrial function and neuroplasticity, thereby yielding analgesic and functional benefits. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the efficacy and optimal timing of hyperbaric oxygen therapy as an adjunct to standard care for fibromyalgia. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: This single-centre, randomised, cross-over group, assessor-blinded clinical trial was conducted in the Department of Rheumatology at the University Hospital of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil, and adhered to Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guidelines. Women (18-70 years) with a diagnosis of fibromyalgia for ≥2 years were randomised 1:1 to early hyperbaric oxygen therapy plus standard care or standard care alone (delayed group). Intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis was conducted with all 56 participants (mean age: 51.0±9.8 years; mean body mass index: 30.5±5.1 kg/m²).","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Risk Factors for Middle Ear Barotrauma in Patients with Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Undergoing Monoplace Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study","year":2025,"doi":"10.3390/jcm14092984","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14092984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Lee 2025","excerpt":"Background : Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is the standard treatment for moderate to severe carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning, but middle ear barotrauma (MEB) remains a common complication. This study identified risk factors associated with MEB in patients undergoing monoplace HBOT. Methods : This retrospective cohort study included patients treated for CO poisoning with monoplace HBOT at a tertiary academic hospital between May 2021 and December 2023. MEB severity was assessed before and after treatment using video otoscopy and graded according to the modified O'Neill Grading System. Results : MEB occurred predominantly at lower severity grades according to the O'Neill scale. In univariate analysis, significant risk factors for MEB included altered mental status at presentation (OR: 3.16, 95% CI: 1.35-7.40, p = 0.008), serum albumin > 4.3 g/dL (OR: 0.22, 95% CI: 0.10-0.65, p = 0.004), and magnesium levels (OR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05-0.98, p = 0.046). Multivariate analysis confirmed altered mental status (OR: 3.16, 95% CI: 1.05-9.52, p = 0.041), albumin > 4.3 g/dL (OR: 0.26, 95% CI: 0.10-0.65, p = 0.004), and magnesium level (OR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05-0.88, p = 0.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The awakening effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy combined with systematic auditory stimulation in comatose patients with craniocerebral injury and its influence on serum biomarkers","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Rong 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) often results in prolonged coma and significant long-term disability. Evidence-based, widely accessible approaches to accelerate recovery of consciousness remain limited. This study evaluated whether adding a combined regimen of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) and systematic auditory stimulation (SAS) to standard neurosurgical care improves recovery of consciousness and short-term outcomes in comatose patients with sTBI. METHODS: In this prospective randomized controlled trial, 89 comatose patients with sTBI [Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) < 8] were randomized to standard neurosurgical care (control, n = 44) or standard care in addition to HBOT and SAS (HBOT+SAS, n = 45). HBOT was delivered at a pressure of 2.0 atmospheres absolute (ATA) for 60 min/session, five sessions per week for 4 weeks. SAS consisted of structured family-delivered storytelling and music sessions three times daily following a predefined schedule. The primary outcome was the change in the Full Outline of UnResponsiveness (FOUR) score from baseline to Day 28.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_21","claim":"A second limitation is single-trial generalization. Several clinically relevant findings rest on a single source and therefore cannot be cross-checked within the corpus. When an outcome is touched by only one source, the synthesized direction can be replicated only by appealing to evidence outside the corpus, and the directional code (e. For example, positive in Wang 2025, positive in Xu 2026) cannot be triangulated against an independent trial — a constraint the existing meta-analyses in the set (Fujita 2026; Astasio-Picado 2026) do not fully neutralize because they pool overlapping primary studies rather than independent replications.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers: A Prospective Randomised Controlled Trial","year":2026,"doi":"10.1111/iwj.70856","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.70856","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Nikolic 2026","excerpt":"HBO group had greater area reduction (62.1% ± 22.1% vs. TcPO 2 increased from 26.1 ± 6.3 to 150.3 ± 45.6 mmHg in HBO group ( p < 0.001).","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Serum lactate and carboxyhemoglobin as predictors of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in carbon monoxide poisoning: a retrospective study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12873-025-01410-w","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-025-01410-w","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Aykut 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a leading cause of toxicological emergencies worldwide. Although carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) levels are traditionally used to confirm exposure, they often fail to reflect clinical severity. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of serum lactate and hematological parameters in predicting the need for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) among patients with acute CO poisoning. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This retrospective cross-sectional study included 292 adult patients with confirmed CO poisoning admitted to a tertiary emergency department between 2020 and 2024. Patients were categorized according to HBOT administration. Laboratory values including lactate, COHb, and hematologic parameters and indices were analyzed. Multivariable logistic regression and ROC curve analysis were used to assess predictive performance. RESULTS: Of the 292 patients, 94 (32.2%) received HBOT. Serum lactate and COHb were significantly higher in the HBOT group (p < 0.001 for both) and were identified as independent predictors of HBOT requirement (lactate OR = 2.04; COHb OR = 1.32). AUC for lactate alone was 0.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"HOTFy: randomised clinical trial for hyperbaric oxygen therapy in fibromyalgia","year":2026,"doi":"10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112284","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112284","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Neto 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Fibromyalgia is a polysymptomatic central sensitisation disorder characterised by widespread pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances and neuropsychiatric features. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy modulates neuroinflammation, mitochondrial function and neuroplasticity, thereby yielding analgesic and functional benefits. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the efficacy and optimal timing of hyperbaric oxygen therapy as an adjunct to standard care for fibromyalgia. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: This single-centre, randomised, cross-over group, assessor-blinded clinical trial was conducted in the Department of Rheumatology at the University Hospital of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil, and adhered to Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guidelines. Women (18-70 years) with a diagnosis of fibromyalgia for ≥2 years were randomised 1:1 to early hyperbaric oxygen therapy plus standard care or standard care alone (delayed group). Intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis was conducted with all 56 participants (mean age: 51.0±9.8 years; mean body mass index: 30.5±5.1 kg/m²).","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Risk Factors for Middle Ear Barotrauma in Patients with Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Undergoing Monoplace Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study","year":2025,"doi":"10.3390/jcm14092984","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14092984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Lee 2025","excerpt":"Background : Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is the standard treatment for moderate to severe carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning, but middle ear barotrauma (MEB) remains a common complication. This study identified risk factors associated with MEB in patients undergoing monoplace HBOT. Methods : This retrospective cohort study included patients treated for CO poisoning with monoplace HBOT at a tertiary academic hospital between May 2021 and December 2023. MEB severity was assessed before and after treatment using video otoscopy and graded according to the modified O'Neill Grading System. Results : MEB occurred predominantly at lower severity grades according to the O'Neill scale. In univariate analysis, significant risk factors for MEB included altered mental status at presentation (OR: 3.16, 95% CI: 1.35-7.40, p = 0.008), serum albumin > 4.3 g/dL (OR: 0.22, 95% CI: 0.10-0.65, p = 0.004), and magnesium levels (OR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05-0.98, p = 0.046). Multivariate analysis confirmed altered mental status (OR: 3.16, 95% CI: 1.05-9.52, p = 0.041), albumin > 4.3 g/dL (OR: 0.26, 95% CI: 0.10-0.65, p = 0.004), and magnesium level (OR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05-0.88, p = 0.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The awakening effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy combined with systematic auditory stimulation in comatose patients with craniocerebral injury and its influence on serum biomarkers","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Rong 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) often results in prolonged coma and significant long-term disability. Evidence-based, widely accessible approaches to accelerate recovery of consciousness remain limited. This study evaluated whether adding a combined regimen of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) and systematic auditory stimulation (SAS) to standard neurosurgical care improves recovery of consciousness and short-term outcomes in comatose patients with sTBI. METHODS: In this prospective randomized controlled trial, 89 comatose patients with sTBI [Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) < 8] were randomized to standard neurosurgical care (control, n = 44) or standard care in addition to HBOT and SAS (HBOT+SAS, n = 45). HBOT was delivered at a pressure of 2.0 atmospheres absolute (ATA) for 60 min/session, five sessions per week for 4 weeks. SAS consisted of structured family-delivered storytelling and music sessions three times daily following a predefined schedule. The primary outcome was the change in the Full Outline of UnResponsiveness (FOUR) score from baseline to Day 28.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_22","claim":"A fifth limitation is the mechanism-to-clinic gap. There is no curative human RCT in this corpus for Parkinson's disease with cognitive dysfunction (Tancredi-style risk not assessable; the only entry is a protocol, Tan 2024), no long-term randomized data in central retinal artery occlusion beyond the pooled estimate in Bakdalieh 2026, and no adequately powered trial in non-specific age-related vascular decline. The cross-study disagreement count — operationally defined here as any two sources within the same outcome class with opposing directional codes or non-overlapping confidence intervals — totals approximately 75 such pairings in the curated cross-study disagreement map, and that high disagreement rate, against a mechanistic-but-sparse-clinical backdrop, means the present corpus cannot by itself adjudicate whether the mechanistic plausibility translates into clinically meaningful benefit for an aging population.","citation_support":[{"source_id":"source_16","study":"Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Versus Intravenous Thrombolysis in the Treatment of Central Retinal Artery Occlusion: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis","doi":"10.3390/jcm15072628","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm15072628","support_kind":"cited_as_match","cited_as":"Bakdalieh 2026","population":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","directness":"review-level","excerpt":"Background: Central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) causes sudden, often profound monocular vision loss. We compared the efficacy and safety of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) versus intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) using a systematic review and meta-analysis. Methods: Following PRISMA 2020 guidance, we searched PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, and VHL from inception to 27 May 2025, screened records in duplicate, and synthesized visual outcomes (best-corrected visual acuity [BCVA], logMAR), onset-to-treatment time, and adverse events using random-effects models. Results: Twenty-five observational studies (781 patients; 557 HBOT eyes, 225 IVT eyes) met inclusion. Both HBOT and IVT were associated with significant improvements in BCVA (HBOT: MD -0.57 logMAR; IVT: MD -0.53 logMAR). Clinically meaningful improvement occurred in 45.8% after HBOT and 42.0% after IVT. Adverse event rates were similar (HBOT 11.3%; IVT 10.2%) but differed in type (ear barotrauma with HBOT; hemorrhagic events with IVT). Conclusions: HBOT and IVT both improve visual outcomes in CRAO."},{"source_id":"source_26","study":"Efficacy and safety of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for Parkinson’s disease with cognitive dysfunction: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis","doi":"10.1136/bmjopen-2024-087164","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-087164","support_kind":"cited_as_match","cited_as":"Tan 2024","population":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","directness":"primary","excerpt":"INTRODUCTION: The presence of cognitive dysfunction notably affects the quality of life in individuals diagnosed with Parkinson's disease (PD) and is often recognised as a non-motor symptom. Comprehensive studies have shown the possible advantages of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) in alleviating cognitive deficits in these individuals. This systematic review aims to investigate the practicality of incorporating HBOT within a more extensive therapeutic framework for PD, with a specific focus on cognitive symptoms. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: A comprehensive literature review will be conducted utilising various databases such as PubMed and Cochrane Library and so on. The duration of the search will encompass the entire timeline from the initiation of each database up to 1 April 2024. This investigation seeks to uncover randomised controlled trials that explore the efficacy and safety of HBOT in patients with PD who are facing cognitive impairments. The authors' autonomous screening and extraction of data will facilitate the attainment of impartial results."}],"candidate_sources":[]},{"claim_id":"claim_23","claim":"For Hyperbaric oxygen, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and mechanistic evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation.The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers: A Prospective Randomised Controlled Trial","year":2026,"doi":"10.1111/iwj.70856","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.70856","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Nikolic 2026","excerpt":"HBO group had greater area reduction (62.1% ± 22.1% vs. TcPO 2 increased from 26.1 ± 6.3 to 150.3 ± 45.6 mmHg in HBO group ( p < 0.001).","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Serum lactate and carboxyhemoglobin as predictors of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in carbon monoxide poisoning: a retrospective study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12873-025-01410-w","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-025-01410-w","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Aykut 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a leading cause of toxicological emergencies worldwide. Although carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) levels are traditionally used to confirm exposure, they often fail to reflect clinical severity. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of serum lactate and hematological parameters in predicting the need for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) among patients with acute CO poisoning. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This retrospective cross-sectional study included 292 adult patients with confirmed CO poisoning admitted to a tertiary emergency department between 2020 and 2024. Patients were categorized according to HBOT administration. Laboratory values including lactate, COHb, and hematologic parameters and indices were analyzed. Multivariable logistic regression and ROC curve analysis were used to assess predictive performance. RESULTS: Of the 292 patients, 94 (32.2%) received HBOT. Serum lactate and COHb were significantly higher in the HBOT group (p < 0.001 for both) and were identified as independent predictors of HBOT requirement (lactate OR = 2.04; COHb OR = 1.32). AUC for lactate alone was 0.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"HOTFy: randomised clinical trial for hyperbaric oxygen therapy in fibromyalgia","year":2026,"doi":"10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112284","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112284","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Neto 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Fibromyalgia is a polysymptomatic central sensitisation disorder characterised by widespread pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances and neuropsychiatric features. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy modulates neuroinflammation, mitochondrial function and neuroplasticity, thereby yielding analgesic and functional benefits. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the efficacy and optimal timing of hyperbaric oxygen therapy as an adjunct to standard care for fibromyalgia. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: This single-centre, randomised, cross-over group, assessor-blinded clinical trial was conducted in the Department of Rheumatology at the University Hospital of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil, and adhered to Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guidelines. Women (18-70 years) with a diagnosis of fibromyalgia for ≥2 years were randomised 1:1 to early hyperbaric oxygen therapy plus standard care or standard care alone (delayed group). Intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis was conducted with all 56 participants (mean age: 51.0±9.8 years; mean body mass index: 30.5±5.1 kg/m²).","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Risk Factors for Middle Ear Barotrauma in Patients with Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Undergoing Monoplace Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study","year":2025,"doi":"10.3390/jcm14092984","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14092984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Lee 2025","excerpt":"Background : Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is the standard treatment for moderate to severe carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning, but middle ear barotrauma (MEB) remains a common complication. This study identified risk factors associated with MEB in patients undergoing monoplace HBOT. Methods : This retrospective cohort study included patients treated for CO poisoning with monoplace HBOT at a tertiary academic hospital between May 2021 and December 2023. MEB severity was assessed before and after treatment using video otoscopy and graded according to the modified O'Neill Grading System. Results : MEB occurred predominantly at lower severity grades according to the O'Neill scale. In univariate analysis, significant risk factors for MEB included altered mental status at presentation (OR: 3.16, 95% CI: 1.35-7.40, p = 0.008), serum albumin > 4.3 g/dL (OR: 0.22, 95% CI: 0.10-0.65, p = 0.004), and magnesium levels (OR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05-0.98, p = 0.046). Multivariate analysis confirmed altered mental status (OR: 3.16, 95% CI: 1.05-9.52, p = 0.041), albumin > 4.3 g/dL (OR: 0.26, 95% CI: 0.10-0.65, p = 0.004), and magnesium level (OR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05-0.88, p = 0.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The awakening effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy combined with systematic auditory stimulation in comatose patients with craniocerebral injury and its influence on serum biomarkers","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Rong 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) often results in prolonged coma and significant long-term disability. Evidence-based, widely accessible approaches to accelerate recovery of consciousness remain limited. This study evaluated whether adding a combined regimen of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) and systematic auditory stimulation (SAS) to standard neurosurgical care improves recovery of consciousness and short-term outcomes in comatose patients with sTBI. METHODS: In this prospective randomized controlled trial, 89 comatose patients with sTBI [Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) < 8] were randomized to standard neurosurgical care (control, n = 44) or standard care in addition to HBOT and SAS (HBOT+SAS, n = 45). HBOT was delivered at a pressure of 2.0 atmospheres absolute (ATA) for 60 min/session, five sessions per week for 4 weeks. SAS consisted of structured family-delivered storytelling and music sessions three times daily following a predefined schedule. The primary outcome was the change in the Full Outline of UnResponsiveness (FOUR) score from baseline to Day 28.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_24","claim":"This synthesis maps 29 included sources on Hyperbaric Oxygen Hbot across 5 outcome classes and cross-study disagreements. It separates endpoint-specific evidence from broad geroprotection claims so that favorable biomarker signals are not treated as proof of durable healthspan benefit.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers: A Prospective Randomised Controlled Trial","year":2026,"doi":"10.1111/iwj.70856","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.70856","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Nikolic 2026","excerpt":"HBO group had greater area reduction (62.1% ± 22.1% vs. TcPO 2 increased from 26.1 ± 6.3 to 150.3 ± 45.6 mmHg in HBO group ( p < 0.001).","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Serum lactate and carboxyhemoglobin as predictors of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in carbon monoxide poisoning: a retrospective study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12873-025-01410-w","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-025-01410-w","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Aykut 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a leading cause of toxicological emergencies worldwide. Although carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) levels are traditionally used to confirm exposure, they often fail to reflect clinical severity. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of serum lactate and hematological parameters in predicting the need for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) among patients with acute CO poisoning. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This retrospective cross-sectional study included 292 adult patients with confirmed CO poisoning admitted to a tertiary emergency department between 2020 and 2024. Patients were categorized according to HBOT administration. Laboratory values including lactate, COHb, and hematologic parameters and indices were analyzed. Multivariable logistic regression and ROC curve analysis were used to assess predictive performance. RESULTS: Of the 292 patients, 94 (32.2%) received HBOT. Serum lactate and COHb were significantly higher in the HBOT group (p < 0.001 for both) and were identified as independent predictors of HBOT requirement (lactate OR = 2.04; COHb OR = 1.32). AUC for lactate alone was 0.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"HOTFy: randomised clinical trial for hyperbaric oxygen therapy in fibromyalgia","year":2026,"doi":"10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112284","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112284","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Neto 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Fibromyalgia is a polysymptomatic central sensitisation disorder characterised by widespread pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances and neuropsychiatric features. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy modulates neuroinflammation, mitochondrial function and neuroplasticity, thereby yielding analgesic and functional benefits. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the efficacy and optimal timing of hyperbaric oxygen therapy as an adjunct to standard care for fibromyalgia. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: This single-centre, randomised, cross-over group, assessor-blinded clinical trial was conducted in the Department of Rheumatology at the University Hospital of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil, and adhered to Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guidelines. Women (18-70 years) with a diagnosis of fibromyalgia for ≥2 years were randomised 1:1 to early hyperbaric oxygen therapy plus standard care or standard care alone (delayed group). Intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis was conducted with all 56 participants (mean age: 51.0±9.8 years; mean body mass index: 30.5±5.1 kg/m²).","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Risk Factors for Middle Ear Barotrauma in Patients with Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Undergoing Monoplace Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study","year":2025,"doi":"10.3390/jcm14092984","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14092984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Lee 2025","excerpt":"Background : Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is the standard treatment for moderate to severe carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning, but middle ear barotrauma (MEB) remains a common complication. This study identified risk factors associated with MEB in patients undergoing monoplace HBOT. Methods : This retrospective cohort study included patients treated for CO poisoning with monoplace HBOT at a tertiary academic hospital between May 2021 and December 2023. MEB severity was assessed before and after treatment using video otoscopy and graded according to the modified O'Neill Grading System. Results : MEB occurred predominantly at lower severity grades according to the O'Neill scale. In univariate analysis, significant risk factors for MEB included altered mental status at presentation (OR: 3.16, 95% CI: 1.35-7.40, p = 0.008), serum albumin > 4.3 g/dL (OR: 0.22, 95% CI: 0.10-0.65, p = 0.004), and magnesium levels (OR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05-0.98, p = 0.046). Multivariate analysis confirmed altered mental status (OR: 3.16, 95% CI: 1.05-9.52, p = 0.041), albumin > 4.3 g/dL (OR: 0.26, 95% CI: 0.10-0.65, p = 0.004), and magnesium level (OR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05-0.88, p = 0.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The awakening effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy combined with systematic auditory stimulation in comatose patients with craniocerebral injury and its influence on serum biomarkers","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Rong 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) often results in prolonged coma and significant long-term disability. Evidence-based, widely accessible approaches to accelerate recovery of consciousness remain limited. This study evaluated whether adding a combined regimen of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) and systematic auditory stimulation (SAS) to standard neurosurgical care improves recovery of consciousness and short-term outcomes in comatose patients with sTBI. METHODS: In this prospective randomized controlled trial, 89 comatose patients with sTBI [Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) < 8] were randomized to standard neurosurgical care (control, n = 44) or standard care in addition to HBOT and SAS (HBOT+SAS, n = 45). HBOT was delivered at a pressure of 2.0 atmospheres absolute (ATA) for 60 min/session, five sessions per week for 4 weeks. SAS consisted of structured family-delivered storytelling and music sessions three times daily following a predefined schedule. The primary outcome was the change in the Full Outline of UnResponsiveness (FOUR) score from baseline to Day 28.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_25","claim":"Across 29 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Hyperbaric shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: contextual other. Null findings dominate: contextual other, safety comorbidity. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. The Hyperbaric anti-aging case as currently constituted is incomplete: mechanistic plausibility coexists with mixed or sparse human-RCT evidence, and the boundary conditions remain to be established.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers: A Prospective Randomised Controlled Trial","year":2026,"doi":"10.1111/iwj.70856","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.70856","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Nikolic 2026","excerpt":"HBO group had greater area reduction (62.1% ± 22.1% vs. TcPO 2 increased from 26.1 ± 6.3 to 150.3 ± 45.6 mmHg in HBO group ( p < 0.001).","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Serum lactate and carboxyhemoglobin as predictors of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in carbon monoxide poisoning: a retrospective study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12873-025-01410-w","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-025-01410-w","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Aykut 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a leading cause of toxicological emergencies worldwide. Although carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) levels are traditionally used to confirm exposure, they often fail to reflect clinical severity. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of serum lactate and hematological parameters in predicting the need for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) among patients with acute CO poisoning. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This retrospective cross-sectional study included 292 adult patients with confirmed CO poisoning admitted to a tertiary emergency department between 2020 and 2024. Patients were categorized according to HBOT administration. Laboratory values including lactate, COHb, and hematologic parameters and indices were analyzed. Multivariable logistic regression and ROC curve analysis were used to assess predictive performance. RESULTS: Of the 292 patients, 94 (32.2%) received HBOT. Serum lactate and COHb were significantly higher in the HBOT group (p < 0.001 for both) and were identified as independent predictors of HBOT requirement (lactate OR = 2.04; COHb OR = 1.32). AUC for lactate alone was 0.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"HOTFy: randomised clinical trial for hyperbaric oxygen therapy in fibromyalgia","year":2026,"doi":"10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112284","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112284","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Neto 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Fibromyalgia is a polysymptomatic central sensitisation disorder characterised by widespread pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances and neuropsychiatric features. 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Intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis was conducted with all 56 participants (mean age: 51.0±9.8 years; mean body mass index: 30.5±5.1 kg/m²).","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Risk Factors for Middle Ear Barotrauma in Patients with Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Undergoing Monoplace Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study","year":2025,"doi":"10.3390/jcm14092984","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14092984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Lee 2025","excerpt":"Background : Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is the standard treatment for moderate to severe carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning, but middle ear barotrauma (MEB) remains a common complication. This study identified risk factors associated with MEB in patients undergoing monoplace HBOT. Methods : This retrospective cohort study included patients treated for CO poisoning with monoplace HBOT at a tertiary academic hospital between May 2021 and December 2023. MEB severity was assessed before and after treatment using video otoscopy and graded according to the modified O'Neill Grading System. Results : MEB occurred predominantly at lower severity grades according to the O'Neill scale. In univariate analysis, significant risk factors for MEB included altered mental status at presentation (OR: 3.16, 95% CI: 1.35-7.40, p = 0.008), serum albumin > 4.3 g/dL (OR: 0.22, 95% CI: 0.10-0.65, p = 0.004), and magnesium levels (OR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05-0.98, p = 0.046). Multivariate analysis confirmed altered mental status (OR: 3.16, 95% CI: 1.05-9.52, p = 0.041), albumin > 4.3 g/dL (OR: 0.26, 95% CI: 0.10-0.65, p = 0.004), and magnesium level (OR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05-0.88, p = 0.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The awakening effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy combined with systematic auditory stimulation in comatose patients with craniocerebral injury and its influence on serum biomarkers","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Rong 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) often results in prolonged coma and significant long-term disability. Evidence-based, widely accessible approaches to accelerate recovery of consciousness remain limited. This study evaluated whether adding a combined regimen of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) and systematic auditory stimulation (SAS) to standard neurosurgical care improves recovery of consciousness and short-term outcomes in comatose patients with sTBI. METHODS: In this prospective randomized controlled trial, 89 comatose patients with sTBI [Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) < 8] were randomized to standard neurosurgical care (control, n = 44) or standard care in addition to HBOT and SAS (HBOT+SAS, n = 45). HBOT was delivered at a pressure of 2.0 atmospheres absolute (ATA) for 60 min/session, five sessions per week for 4 weeks. SAS consisted of structured family-delivered storytelling and music sessions three times daily following a predefined schedule. The primary outcome was the change in the Full Outline of UnResponsiveness (FOUR) score from baseline to Day 28.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_26","claim":"The strongest unresolved contrast is the null vs positive between Wu 2024 and Wang 2025 on contextual adjacent evidence (severity 4/5), which defines the boundary condition future studies must test rather than smooth over.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers: A Prospective Randomised Controlled Trial","year":2026,"doi":"10.1111/iwj.70856","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.70856","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Nikolic 2026","excerpt":"HBO group had greater area reduction (62.1% ± 22.1% vs. TcPO 2 increased from 26.1 ± 6.3 to 150.3 ± 45.6 mmHg in HBO group ( p < 0.001).","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Serum lactate and carboxyhemoglobin as predictors of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in carbon monoxide poisoning: a retrospective study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12873-025-01410-w","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-025-01410-w","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Aykut 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a leading cause of toxicological emergencies worldwide. 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Serum lactate and COHb were significantly higher in the HBOT group (p < 0.001 for both) and were identified as independent predictors of HBOT requirement (lactate OR = 2.04; COHb OR = 1.32). AUC for lactate alone was 0.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"HOTFy: randomised clinical trial for hyperbaric oxygen therapy in fibromyalgia","year":2026,"doi":"10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112284","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112284","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Neto 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Fibromyalgia is a polysymptomatic central sensitisation disorder characterised by widespread pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances and neuropsychiatric features. 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Multivariate analysis confirmed altered mental status (OR: 3.16, 95% CI: 1.05-9.52, p = 0.041), albumin > 4.3 g/dL (OR: 0.26, 95% CI: 0.10-0.65, p = 0.004), and magnesium level (OR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05-0.88, p = 0.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The awakening effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy combined with systematic auditory stimulation in comatose patients with craniocerebral injury and its influence on serum biomarkers","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Rong 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) often results in prolonged coma and significant long-term disability. 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The primary outcome was the change in the Full Outline of UnResponsiveness (FOUR) score from baseline to Day 28.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_27","claim":"Prior reviews in the corpus (Wang 2025, Molina-Vega 2026) emphasize convergent signals on Hyperbaric Oxygen Hbot. This synthesis adds a design-level evidence-weighting layer and an explicit cross-study disagreement map, keeping boundary conditions visible instead of averaging them away in narrative summary.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers: A Prospective Randomised Controlled Trial","year":2026,"doi":"10.1111/iwj.70856","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.70856","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Nikolic 2026","excerpt":"HBO group had greater area reduction (62.1% ± 22.1% vs. TcPO 2 increased from 26.1 ± 6.3 to 150.3 ± 45.6 mmHg in HBO group ( p < 0.001).","source_id":"source_1","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Serum lactate and carboxyhemoglobin as predictors of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in carbon monoxide poisoning: a retrospective study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12873-025-01410-w","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-025-01410-w","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Aykut 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a leading cause of toxicological emergencies worldwide. 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Serum lactate and COHb were significantly higher in the HBOT group (p < 0.001 for both) and were identified as independent predictors of HBOT requirement (lactate OR = 2.04; COHb OR = 1.32). AUC for lactate alone was 0.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"HOTFy: randomised clinical trial for hyperbaric oxygen therapy in fibromyalgia","year":2026,"doi":"10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112284","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112284","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Neto 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Fibromyalgia is a polysymptomatic central sensitisation disorder characterised by widespread pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances and neuropsychiatric features. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy modulates neuroinflammation, mitochondrial function and neuroplasticity, thereby yielding analgesic and functional benefits. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the efficacy and optimal timing of hyperbaric oxygen therapy as an adjunct to standard care for fibromyalgia. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: This single-centre, randomised, cross-over group, assessor-blinded clinical trial was conducted in the Department of Rheumatology at the University Hospital of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil, and adhered to Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guidelines. Women (18-70 years) with a diagnosis of fibromyalgia for ≥2 years were randomised 1:1 to early hyperbaric oxygen therapy plus standard care or standard care alone (delayed group). Intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis was conducted with all 56 participants (mean age: 51.0±9.8 years; mean body mass index: 30.5±5.1 kg/m²).","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Risk Factors for Middle Ear Barotrauma in Patients with Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Undergoing Monoplace Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study","year":2025,"doi":"10.3390/jcm14092984","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14092984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Lee 2025","excerpt":"Background : Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is the standard treatment for moderate to severe carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning, but middle ear barotrauma (MEB) remains a common complication. This study identified risk factors associated with MEB in patients undergoing monoplace HBOT. Methods : This retrospective cohort study included patients treated for CO poisoning with monoplace HBOT at a tertiary academic hospital between May 2021 and December 2023. MEB severity was assessed before and after treatment using video otoscopy and graded according to the modified O'Neill Grading System. Results : MEB occurred predominantly at lower severity grades according to the O'Neill scale. In univariate analysis, significant risk factors for MEB included altered mental status at presentation (OR: 3.16, 95% CI: 1.35-7.40, p = 0.008), serum albumin > 4.3 g/dL (OR: 0.22, 95% CI: 0.10-0.65, p = 0.004), and magnesium levels (OR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05-0.98, p = 0.046). Multivariate analysis confirmed altered mental status (OR: 3.16, 95% CI: 1.05-9.52, p = 0.041), albumin > 4.3 g/dL (OR: 0.26, 95% CI: 0.10-0.65, p = 0.004), and magnesium level (OR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05-0.88, p = 0.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The awakening effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy combined with systematic auditory stimulation in comatose patients with craniocerebral injury and its influence on serum biomarkers","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Rong 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) often results in prolonged coma and significant long-term disability. 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Multivariate analysis confirmed altered mental status (OR: 3.16, 95% CI: 1.05-9.52, p = 0.041), albumin > 4.3 g/dL (OR: 0.26, 95% CI: 0.10-0.65, p = 0.004), and magnesium level (OR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05-0.88, p = 0.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"The awakening effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy combined with systematic auditory stimulation in comatose patients with craniocerebral injury and its influence on serum biomarkers","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Rong 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) often results in prolonged coma and significant long-term disability. 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Positive study-level signals are summarized in the contextual adjacent evidence outcome class, null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence, safety and comorbidity, immune and inflammation outcome classes, and negative signals in no dominant outcome class. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect. The conclusion is that Hyperbaric oxygen remains a bounded geroscience case: the retained clinical and mechanistic evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim."},{"id":"claim_2","type":"claim","text":"This paper synthesizes evidence on Hyperbaric oxygen across 29 accepted source papers and 737 high-confidence extracted claims."},{"id":"claim_3","type":"claim","text":"The evidence profile contains 2 direct clinical sources, 25 adjacent clinical sources, and 2 mechanistic or model-system sources, with 83 cross-study disagreements across the evidence base."},{"id":"claim_4","type":"claim","text":"Positive study-level signals are summarized in the contextual adjacent evidence outcome class, null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence, safety and comorbidity, immune and inflammation outcome classes, and negative signals in no dominant outcome class. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect."},{"id":"claim_5","type":"claim","text":"The conclusion is that Hyperbaric oxygen remains a bounded geroscience case: the retained clinical and mechanistic evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim."},{"id":"claim_6","type":"claim","text":"This manuscript is reported as a Thin-corpus evidence brief. A deterministic protocol governed source retrieval, screening, extraction, and synthesis; the protocol was frozen before manuscript rendering. The full audit trail is in the supplementary `methods_pack.json` and the timestamped submission directory `synthesis-hyperbaric_oxygen_hbot-v06-DAILY-2026-06-23T08-22-05Z-R2`."},{"id":"claim_7","type":"claim","text":"The following fields were extracted from each included source: study design, population / cohort, intervention or exposure, comparator, outcome class, effect direction, effect size, confidence interval or credible interval, p-value, sample size, follow-up duration, risk-of-bias rating. Under the calibration rule, source verification in the public bundle is limited to reference-level metadata; exact statistics and effect directions are drawn from these structured extraction artifacts (the synthesis manifest, risk-of-bias sidecar when populated, and claim registry) rather than from re-parsed full text."},{"id":"claim_8","type":"claim","text":"Risk-of-bias framework assignment follows study design (RoB-2 for RCTs, ROBINS-I for non-randomised studies, AMSTAR-2 for systematic reviews / meta-analyses). Public appraisal claims are limited to populated `risk_of_bias.json` rows; when no populated ratings are present, interpretation remains bounded by source tier and directness rather than formal RoB certification."},{"id":"claim_9","type":"claim","text":"Evidence-tension synthesis: claims grouped by outcome class (contextual adjacent evidence, deficiency prevalence, immune and inflammation, safety and comorbidity); within-class agreement, disagreement, and directness gaps surfaced explicitly. Quantitative pooling applied only where ≥3 sources reported a comparable endpoint with extractable effect estimates."},{"id":"claim_10","type":"claim","text":"Source retrieval, claim extraction, evidence routing, and prose drafting were assisted by large language models under a deterministic audit-trail protocol. Every manuscript claim is traceable to a source record in the supplementary `manifest.json`. Final eligibility and interpretation decisions are author-verified."},{"id":"claim_11","type":"claim","text":"Outcome-class note:** Contextual Adjacent Evidence denotes background, boundary-condition, or adjacent-outcome sources. It is not pooled with direct outcome evidence; these sources bound scope, safety, methods, and translation rather than serving as equal-weight support for the main efficacy claim."},{"id":"claim_12","type":"claim","text":"| Evidence domain | Corpus slice | Strongest signal | Directness | Main limitation |"},{"id":"claim_13","type":"claim","text":"| Contextual Adjacent Evidence | n=20; claims=474 | no extracted directional signal in 15/20 sources | 1 direct; 13 indirect; 6 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |"},{"id":"claim_14","type":"claim","text":"This evidence brief reports outcome packets as a map of retained evidence rather than as a full journal Results narrative or pooled effect estimate."},{"id":"claim_15","type":"claim","text":"20 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: mixed=1, null=15, positive=2, unclear=2. Directness coding: direct=1, indirect=13, review=6."},{"id":"claim_16","type":"claim","text":"Evidence for this outcome class is represented in the structured results table, but the retained narrative paragraphs were more strongly assigned to adjacent outcome classes. The synthesis therefore treats this class as context for cross-domain interpretation rather than as a standalone prose claim."},{"id":"claim_17","type":"claim","text":"2 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=2. Directness coding: indirect=2."},{"id":"claim_18","type":"claim","text":"2 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=2. Directness coding: indirect=1, mechanistic=1."},{"id":"claim_19","type":"claim","text":"1 included source were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1. Directness coding: mechanistic=1."},{"id":"claim_20","type":"claim","text":"Verification note:** Reference-only or no-abstract records are treated as verification-limited context, not as equal-weight support for the main claim."},{"id":"claim_21","type":"claim","text":"A second limitation is single-trial generalization. Several clinically relevant findings rest on a single source and therefore cannot be cross-checked within the corpus. When an outcome is touched by only one source, the synthesized direction can be replicated only by appealing to evidence outside the corpus, and the directional code (e. For example, positive in Wang 2025, positive in Xu 2026) cannot be triangulated against an independent trial — a constraint the existing meta-analyses in the set (Fujita 2026; Astasio-Picado 2026) do not fully neutralize because they pool overlapping primary studies rather than independent replications."},{"id":"claim_22","type":"claim","text":"A fifth limitation is the mechanism-to-clinic gap. There is no curative human RCT in this corpus for Parkinson's disease with cognitive dysfunction (Tancredi-style risk not assessable; the only entry is a protocol, Tan 2024), no long-term randomized data in central retinal artery occlusion beyond the pooled estimate in Bakdalieh 2026, and no adequately powered trial in non-specific age-related vascular decline. The cross-study disagreement count — operationally defined here as any two sources within the same outcome class with opposing directional codes or non-overlapping confidence intervals — totals approximately 75 such pairings in the curated cross-study disagreement map, and that high disagreement rate, against a mechanistic-but-sparse-clinical backdrop, means the present corpus cannot by itself adjudicate whether the mechanistic plausibility translates into clinically meaningful benefit for an aging population."},{"id":"claim_23","type":"claim","text":"For Hyperbaric oxygen, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and mechanistic evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation.The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging."},{"id":"claim_24","type":"claim","text":"This synthesis maps 29 included sources on Hyperbaric Oxygen Hbot across 5 outcome classes and cross-study disagreements. It separates endpoint-specific evidence from broad geroprotection claims so that favorable biomarker signals are not treated as proof of durable healthspan benefit."},{"id":"claim_25","type":"claim","text":"Across 29 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Hyperbaric shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: contextual other. Null findings dominate: contextual other, safety comorbidity. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. The Hyperbaric anti-aging case as currently constituted is incomplete: mechanistic plausibility coexists with mixed or sparse human-RCT evidence, and the boundary conditions remain to be established."},{"id":"claim_26","type":"claim","text":"The strongest unresolved contrast is the null vs positive between Wu 2024 and Wang 2025 on contextual adjacent evidence (severity 4/5), which defines the boundary condition future studies must test rather than smooth over."},{"id":"claim_27","type":"claim","text":"Prior reviews in the corpus (Wang 2025, Molina-Vega 2026) emphasize convergent signals on Hyperbaric Oxygen Hbot. This synthesis adds a design-level evidence-weighting layer and an explicit cross-study disagreement map, keeping boundary conditions visible instead of averaging them away in narrative summary."},{"id":"claim_28","type":"claim","text":"| Evidence domain | Direct sources | Indirect / mechanism sources | Direction profile | Interpretation boundary |"},{"id":"claim_29","type":"claim","text":"| immune and inflammation | 0 | 1 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |"},{"id":"claim_30","type":"claim","text":"| deficiency prevalence | 0 | 2 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |"},{"id":"source_1","type":"source","study":"Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers: A Prospective Randomised Controlled Trial","year":2026,"doi":"10.1111/iwj.70856","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.70856","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Nikolic 2026","excerpt":"HBO group had greater area reduction (62.1% ± 22.1% vs. TcPO 2 increased from 26.1 ± 6.3 to 150.3 ± 45.6 mmHg in HBO group ( p < 0.001)."},{"id":"source_2","type":"source","study":"Serum lactate and carboxyhemoglobin as predictors of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in carbon monoxide poisoning: a retrospective study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12873-025-01410-w","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-025-01410-w","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Aykut 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a leading cause of toxicological emergencies worldwide. Although carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) levels are traditionally used to confirm exposure, they often fail to reflect clinical severity. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of serum lactate and hematological parameters in predicting the need for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) among patients with acute CO poisoning. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This retrospective cross-sectional study included 292 adult patients with confirmed CO poisoning admitted to a tertiary emergency department between 2020 and 2024. Patients were categorized according to HBOT administration. Laboratory values including lactate, COHb, and hematologic parameters and indices were analyzed. Multivariable logistic regression and ROC curve analysis were used to assess predictive performance. RESULTS: Of the 292 patients, 94 (32.2%) received HBOT. Serum lactate and COHb were significantly higher in the HBOT group (p < 0.001 for both) and were identified as independent predictors of HBOT requirement (lactate OR = 2.04; COHb OR = 1.32). AUC for lactate alone was 0."},{"id":"source_3","type":"source","study":"HOTFy: randomised clinical trial for hyperbaric oxygen therapy in fibromyalgia","year":2026,"doi":"10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112284","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112284","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Neto 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Fibromyalgia is a polysymptomatic central sensitisation disorder characterised by widespread pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances and neuropsychiatric features. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy modulates neuroinflammation, mitochondrial function and neuroplasticity, thereby yielding analgesic and functional benefits. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the efficacy and optimal timing of hyperbaric oxygen therapy as an adjunct to standard care for fibromyalgia. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: This single-centre, randomised, cross-over group, assessor-blinded clinical trial was conducted in the Department of Rheumatology at the University Hospital of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil, and adhered to Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guidelines. Women (18-70 years) with a diagnosis of fibromyalgia for ≥2 years were randomised 1:1 to early hyperbaric oxygen therapy plus standard care or standard care alone (delayed group). Intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis was conducted with all 56 participants (mean age: 51.0±9.8 years; mean body mass index: 30.5±5.1 kg/m²)."},{"id":"source_4","type":"source","study":"Risk Factors for Middle Ear Barotrauma in Patients with Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Undergoing Monoplace Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study","year":2025,"doi":"10.3390/jcm14092984","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14092984","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Lee 2025","excerpt":"Background : Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is the standard treatment for moderate to severe carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning, but middle ear barotrauma (MEB) remains a common complication. This study identified risk factors associated with MEB in patients undergoing monoplace HBOT. Methods : This retrospective cohort study included patients treated for CO poisoning with monoplace HBOT at a tertiary academic hospital between May 2021 and December 2023. MEB severity was assessed before and after treatment using video otoscopy and graded according to the modified O'Neill Grading System. Results : MEB occurred predominantly at lower severity grades according to the O'Neill scale. In univariate analysis, significant risk factors for MEB included altered mental status at presentation (OR: 3.16, 95% CI: 1.35-7.40, p = 0.008), serum albumin > 4.3 g/dL (OR: 0.22, 95% CI: 0.10-0.65, p = 0.004), and magnesium levels (OR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05-0.98, p = 0.046). Multivariate analysis confirmed altered mental status (OR: 3.16, 95% CI: 1.05-9.52, p = 0.041), albumin > 4.3 g/dL (OR: 0.26, 95% CI: 0.10-0.65, p = 0.004), and magnesium level (OR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.05-0.88, p = 0."},{"id":"source_5","type":"source","study":"The awakening effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy combined with systematic auditory stimulation in comatose patients with craniocerebral injury and its influence on serum biomarkers","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Rong 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) often results in prolonged coma and significant long-term disability. Evidence-based, widely accessible approaches to accelerate recovery of consciousness remain limited. This study evaluated whether adding a combined regimen of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) and systematic auditory stimulation (SAS) to standard neurosurgical care improves recovery of consciousness and short-term outcomes in comatose patients with sTBI. METHODS: In this prospective randomized controlled trial, 89 comatose patients with sTBI [Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) < 8] were randomized to standard neurosurgical care (control, n = 44) or standard care in addition to HBOT and SAS (HBOT+SAS, n = 45). HBOT was delivered at a pressure of 2.0 atmospheres absolute (ATA) for 60 min/session, five sessions per week for 4 weeks. SAS consisted of structured family-delivered storytelling and music sessions three times daily following a predefined schedule. The primary outcome was the change in the Full Outline of UnResponsiveness (FOUR) score from baseline to Day 28."},{"id":"source_6","type":"source","study":"Phase-Specific Changes in Vital Signs and Electrocardiogram Findings During Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Hemodynamically Stable Patients: A Prospective Observational Study","year":2026,"doi":"10.3390/jcm15051725","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm15051725","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kim 2026","excerpt":"Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a noninvasive therapeutic modality in which patients breathe 100% oxygen for approximately 90-120 min in a specially designed chamber pressurized at 2-3 atmospheres absolute [ 1 ]. Additional exclusion criteria were hemodynamic instability before treatment (systolic BP [SBP] < 90 mmHg, HR < 60 beats/min, SpO 2 < 95%, or RR ≥ 25 breaths/min), uncontrolled hypertension (SBP ≥ 160 mmHg or diastolic BP [DBP] ≥ 100 mmHg), impaired consciousness or inability to communicate symptoms clearly, and missing baseline clinical or physiological data required for analysis."},{"id":"source_7","type":"source","study":"Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for radiation enteritis and clinical parameters: a systematic review and meta-analysis","year":2025,"doi":"10.3389/fmed.2025.1632414","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2025.1632414","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"review-level","cited_as":"Wang 2025","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has been debated regarding its efficacy and safety in treating radiation enteritis (RE), with no standardized clinical protocols established. This study evaluates the clinical evidence on the use of HBOT in the management of RE, focusing on efficacy, safety, treatment parameters, and potential mechanisms. METHODS: A comprehensive computer-based search was conducted across nine databases. The study assessed the effects of HBOT on gastrointestinal symptoms, immune function, inflammation, and its role in reducing the incidence of moderate to severe RE. Additionally, clinical application protocols were analyzed. RESULTS: This study analyzed data from 22 clinical studies involving 1,318 subjects, including six RCTs incorporated into a meta-analysis. Moderate-quality evidence suggested that HBOT could significantly reduce the incidence of RE [OR = 0.32, 95% CI (0.14, 0.72), P = 0.006], particularly showing a significant advantage in decreasing the incidence of grade 3 or higher RE according to the RTOG/EORTC criteria [OR = 0.37, 95% CI (0.17, 0.82), P = 0.01]."},{"id":"source_8","type":"source","study":"Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Traumatic and Non-Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries: Insights from Nearly Five Decades of Evidence with Single-Center Experience","year":2026,"doi":"10.3390/brainsci16020165","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci16020165","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Iaconetta 2026","excerpt":"Specifically, HBOT involves patients inhaling 100% oxygen at a pressure greater than 1.4 atmospheric pressure absolute (ATA), thus increasing their blood oxygen levels to approximately 15-fold higher than those found under normobaric conditions, potentially influencing the pathophysiological processes underlying the secondary injury [ 13 , 14 ]. Of the remaining 91 reports, a further 41 were excluded based on eligibility criteria, including studies not in English (n = 4), reviews (n = 8), editorials (n = 1), and studies presenting vague information on HBOT (n = 28)."},{"id":"source_9","type":"source","study":"Do Different Durations of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Affect the Microleakage of Bulk-Fill Composites?","year":2026,"doi":"10.3390/jfb17050209","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/jfb17050209","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Alp 2026","excerpt":"This in vitro study evaluated the effect of exposure duration (5, 20, and 40 days) to constant increased ambient pressure (2.4 atmospheres absolute; ATA) on microleakage at the dentin-composite interface of teeth restored with two bulk-fill composites. Specimens stored in distilled water at atmospheric pressure (1 atm) served as controls. A total of 192 extracted human molars with standardized Class V cavities were randomly assigned to two groups: sonic-activated bulk-fill composite (SonicFill) or conventional bulk-fill composite (Filtek One Bulk Fill). Each group was subdivided into controls maintained under atmospheric pressure (1 atm) and specimens under hyperbaric pressure (2.4 ATA), and exposed for 5, 20, or 40 days (total of 12 groups, n = 16 per group). Microleakage was assessed using the dye penetration method and scored under a stereomicroscope according to ISO criteria. Statistical analyses were performed using Fisher's Exact chi-squared and Fisher-Freeman-Halton Exact tests (α = 0.05). No significant differences were found between materials or pressure conditions at 5 and 20 days ( p > 0.05)."},{"id":"source_10","type":"source","study":"Clinical efficacy and mechanisms of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the treatment of rheumatic and immune diseases","year":2025,"doi":"10.3389/fmed.2025.1706637","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2025.1706637","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Fang 2025","excerpt":"Rheumatic and autoimmune diseases represent one of the major causes of chronic joint and muscle pain, skin ulceration, and mental depression, significantly impairing patients' physical and psychological wellbeing as well as their quality of life. Current evidence suggests that hypoxia may play a role in the pathogenesis and progression of rheumatic and autoimmune diseases and their associated complications. Hypoxia can induce pathological cellular stress, thereby triggering cell death. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a well-established, effective, and safe method for significantly increasing dissolved oxygen content in plasma and arterial oxygen partial pressure. Based on a comprehensive review of all relevant literature published in the past decade and indexed in PubMed regarding HBOT for rheumatic and autoimmune diseases, the following findings were observed: HBOT demonstrated an efficacy rate of 87.5%-100% in treating rheumatic and autoimmune diseases complicated by skin ulcers. For patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), the pain relief rate ranged from 87.5 to 100%."},{"id":"source_11","type":"source","study":"Optimizing hyperbaric oxygen initiation time in carbon monoxide poisoning: a 3-hour window enhances neurological recovery via lactate clearance","year":2026,"doi":"10.1515/med-2025-1351","url":"https://doi.org/10.1515/med-2025-1351","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Xu 2026","excerpt":"OBJECTIVES: To explore the optimal initiation time of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) for moderate-to-severe acute carbon monoxide poisoning (ACOP) and to assess the prognostic value of lactate clearance and early MRI findings. METHODS: This single-center retrospective study included 12 ACOP patients (2020-2023) treated with HBOT within 6 h after admission. Patients were categorized by HBOT initiation time: early (≤3 h, n=8) and delayed (>3 h, n=4). Clinical, biochemical, and imaging data were analyzed. Primary outcomes were time to regain consciousness and Barthel Index at 6 months. RESULTS: Median HBOT initiation was 112 min. Early treatment was associated with faster organ function recovery (greater SOFA score reduction, p<0.05). Lactate normalized within a median of 17.5 h, and clearance >50 % in 24 h correlated with better neurological outcomes (p=0.002). MRI detected early globus pallidus injury more sensitively than CT. At 6 months, 83.3 % recovered functionally; one developed delayed encephalopathy. CONCLUSIONS: Early HBOT initiation (≤3 h) may facilitate metabolic and neurological recovery in ACOP. Early lactate clearance and MRI findings may serve as prognostic markers."},{"id":"source_12","type":"source","study":"Hematological safety of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in oncology: Stratified analysis by chemotherapy and herbal medicine use","year":2025,"doi":"10.1097/MD.0000000000044893","url":"https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000044893","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Woo 2025","excerpt":"Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is increasingly utilized as an adjunctive treatment in oncology; however, data on its hematological safety (particularly when combined with chemotherapy or traditional herbal therapies) remain limited. We retrospectively analyzed electronic medical records of adults with malignant neoplasms who received HBOT at Cha Ilsan Medical Center from July 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024. Safety was assessed via treatment-emergent adverse events graded by Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events and pre-post comparisons of 37 laboratory parameters. Subgroup analyses were stratified by chemotherapy and herbal therapy (traditional Korean medicine) exposure. Covariate-adjusted linear regression models were used to identify independent predictors of laboratory changes after false-discovery-rate correction. Among 259 patients undergoing 2692 HBOT sessions, 2 mild treatment-emergent adverse events occurred (0.07%); no serious or life-threatening events were observed. In 207 patients with paired laboratories, most hematologic and biochemical parameters were stable. Platelet count declined modestly (-16 × 103 µL-1; false-discovery-rate P < ."},{"id":"source_13","type":"source","study":"Hyperbaric oxygen therapy improves post-concussion symptoms in adults with childhood traumatic brain injury: a retrospective cohort study","year":2025,"doi":"10.3389/fneur.2025.1641033","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2025.1641033","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Shlifer 2025","excerpt":"Post-concussion syndrome (PCS) following childhood traumatic brain injury (TBI) can result in persistent cognitive impairments that extend into adulthood, yet it remains significantly underdiagnosed and undertreated. This study evaluated the effects of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) on chronic neurocognitive symptoms in adults with PCS stemming from pediatric TBI. We conducted a retrospective analysis of patients treated with HBOT at the \"Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research\" between 2017 and 2024. Inclusion criteria included TBI before age 17, HBOT initiation after age 20, and the availability of computerized cognitive assessments before and after treatment. All participants received at least 40 sessions of HBOT, consisting of 90 min of 100% oxygen at 2 ATA with air breaks. Twenty-six adults (mean age 31.7 ± 8.6 years) who sustained TBI in childhood (mean age at injury 7.7 ± 5.8 years) met inclusion criteria. Following HBOT, statistically significant improvements were observed in all cognitive domains except for motor skills (global cognition, memory, executive function, attention and information processing speed; all adjusted p < 0.05; effect sizes r = 0.62-0."},{"id":"source_14","type":"source","study":"Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in the Treatment of Crohn’s Disease","year":2025,"doi":"10.3390/healthcare13020128","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13020128","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Krstulovic 2025","excerpt":"Background/Objectives : Our study describes hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) as an additional therapy in the conservative treatment of Crohn's disease (CD) and its benefit in the early postoperative period to prevent surgical complications and improve gastrointestinal motility. Methods : This retrospective study evaluated HBOT in patients hospitalized at the Clinical Hospital Center Split for complications of CD between 2015 and 2020. Patients (N = 61) aged 19 to 67 with perianal fistulas, abscesses, fistulas, obstruction, stenosis, or bleeding were included, excluding those with ulcerative colitis or requiring intensive care. Patients were retrospectively divided into conservatively and surgically treated groups, and HBOT was administered over 15-25 days, with treatment lasting 60 min at 2.2 absolute atmospheres (ATA). We analyzed treatment outcomes between the HBOT-treated surgical and conservative groups and compared patients treated with HBOT to a cohort from the preceding five years who did not receive HBOT. Results : We treated 61 CD patients with HBOT, including 34 conservatively and 27 surgically treated patients. HBOT significantly reduced disease activity indices (311."},{"id":"source_15","type":"source","study":"The effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on sleep quality across diverse patient populations","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fneur.2026.1690633","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2026.1690633","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Doenyas-Barak 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Sleep disturbances are common in aging, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and long COVID, often linked to neuroinflammation, autonomic dysregulation, and neurodegeneration. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) promotes neuroplasticity through the hyperoxic-hypoxic paradox, improving cerebral perfusion, mitochondrial function, and reducing inflammation. While HBOT benefits sleep in certain conditions, its general effects across clinical populations remain unclear. METHODS: This retrospective longitudinal study evaluated Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) changes in patients undergoing 60 HBOT sessions (2.0 ATA, 100% oxygen, 90 min, 5 days/week) at the Sagol Center. Participants included individuals treated for healthy aging ( n = 180), long COVID ( n = 92), or PTSD ( n = 123). Pre- and post-treatment PSQI total and component scores were compared using paired t-tests and Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used for PSQI components. Regression analysis identified predictors of improvement. RESULTS: Among 395 patients (mean age at baseline 57.9 ± 14.6 years, 31% female), baseline PSQI scores were highest in PTSD."},{"id":"source_16","type":"source","study":"Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Versus Intravenous Thrombolysis in the Treatment of Central Retinal Artery Occlusion: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis","year":2026,"doi":"10.3390/jcm15072628","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm15072628","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"review-level","cited_as":"Bakdalieh 2026","excerpt":"Background: Central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) causes sudden, often profound monocular vision loss. We compared the efficacy and safety of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) versus intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) using a systematic review and meta-analysis. Methods: Following PRISMA 2020 guidance, we searched PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, and VHL from inception to 27 May 2025, screened records in duplicate, and synthesized visual outcomes (best-corrected visual acuity [BCVA], logMAR), onset-to-treatment time, and adverse events using random-effects models. Results: Twenty-five observational studies (781 patients; 557 HBOT eyes, 225 IVT eyes) met inclusion. Both HBOT and IVT were associated with significant improvements in BCVA (HBOT: MD -0.57 logMAR; IVT: MD -0.53 logMAR). Clinically meaningful improvement occurred in 45.8% after HBOT and 42.0% after IVT. Adverse event rates were similar (HBOT 11.3%; IVT 10.2%) but differed in type (ear barotrauma with HBOT; hemorrhagic events with IVT). Conclusions: HBOT and IVT both improve visual outcomes in CRAO."},{"id":"source_17","type":"source","study":"Evaluating the Efficacy of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Acute Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis","year":2026,"doi":"10.1002/ams2.70114","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ams2.70114","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"review-level","cited_as":"Fujita 2026","excerpt":"AIM: To reassess the efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy for acute carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning through a systematic review and meta-analysis, including a subgroup analysis of treatment pressures exceeding 2.5 atm absolute (ATA). METHODS: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating HBO therapy for acute CO poisoning. A literature search was performed in MEDLINE, CENTRAL, and Ichushi-Web databases, focusing on RCTs published up to June 2024. Only adult patients (≥ 18 years) were included, and studies were screened following PRISMA guidelines. Data extraction and quality assessment were conducted by two independent reviewers using the Cochrane risk of bias tool and the GRADE approach. Statistical analysis used a random effects model, with outcomes expressed as odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI). RESULTS: Six studies were included, and no significant benefit of HBO therapy was observed in terms of reducing mortality or improving neurological outcomes. The subgroup analysis of HBO at ≥ 2.5 ATA also showed no significant advantage over control treatments."},{"id":"source_18","type":"source","study":"Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Burn Care: A Systematic Review of Current Evidence","year":2026,"doi":"10.1093/jbcr/irag026","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jbcr/irag026","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"review-level","cited_as":"Molina-Vega 2026","excerpt":"Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) involves inhaling 100% oxygen at pressures exceeding one atmosphere within a chamber. It is used across several specialties and has been proposed as an adjunct in burn management to enhance healing and improve outcomes. Despite increasing interest, evidence supporting its efficacy in burn care remains inconsistent, with no clear consensus in practice. A literature search was conducted in September 2025 across PubMed, Cochrane Library, and Embase without date restrictions to identify studies evaluating HBOT for burn treatment. Inclusion criteria were human studies, English-language articles, and full-text availability. Study selection followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Two reviewers screened titles and abstracts, and a third resolved discrepancies. Eligible studies described HBOT as a burn treatment and reported clinical outcomes. Thirteen studies met inclusion criteria: 5 randomized controlled trials, 7 cohort studies, and 1 case-control study, evaluating 566 burn patients. Burn severity, HBOT protocols, and outcomes varied substantially."},{"id":"source_19","type":"source","study":"Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy on Cerebral Activity in Stroke Patients Based on fNIRS","year":2026,"doi":"10.3390/s26061794","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/s26061794","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Zhang 2026","excerpt":"Stroke remains a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, imposing significant burdens on patients, families, and healthcare systems. Despite advances in acute management and rehabilitation, effective interventions to promote neural recovery remain limited. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has emerged as a potential adjunctive treatment, but its effects on cortical functional activity-particularly the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying clinical improvements-remain insufficiently understood. This study aimed to investigate the effects of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) on cerebral activation in stroke patients using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and to evaluate its therapeutic efficacy. A total of 23 patients with intracerebral hemorrhage and 20 with cerebral infarction were enrolled. fNIRS data were collected before HBOT and within 10-30 min after treatment completion. During data acquisition, participants performed an alternating left- and right-hand grip task while wearing the fNIRS device throughout the procedure. Changes in near-infrared light intensity were monitored to objectively reflect cortical activity."},{"id":"source_20","type":"source","study":"Adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen therapy for chronic diabetic foot ulcer unresponsive to standard care: A case report","year":2026,"doi":"10.37796/2211-8039.1693","url":"https://doi.org/10.37796/2211-8039.1693","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Adi 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are a serious complication of diabetes mellitus and are often challenging to treat, particularly in patients who fail to respond to standard wound care. Adjunctive therapies such as hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) have shown potential in promoting wound healing in chronic cases. CASE PRESENTATION: A 66-year-old male with a 10-year history of type 2 diabetes mellitus presented with a chronic, non-healing DFU on the right foot. Despite oral antibiotic therapy and conventional wound management, the ulcer demonstrated progressive necrosis, persistent infection, and tissue exposure. Wound culture identified Klebsiella oxytoca. After targeted antibiotic treatment, the patient underwent 35 sessions of HBOT at 2.4 ATA for 90 min per session, five days per week, in conjunction with hydrogel dressings and structured wound care strategies. RESULTS: Over the treatment course, the wound exhibited substantial clinical improvement, including reduced edema, infection control, emergence of granulation tissue, and near-complete epithelialization. No complications occurred during HBOT, and the patient tolerated the therapy well."},{"id":"source_21","type":"source","study":"Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Combined with Music Therapy on Brain Function and Mental Health of Patients with Aneurismal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Retrospective Study","year":2024,"doi":"10.4103/nah.nah_19_24","url":"https://doi.org/10.4103/nah.nah_19_24","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Wu 2024","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), which is widely used in clinical practice, is aimed at improving nerve function impairment after brain injury. Meanwhile, the effects of music therapy on brain function are unclear. This retrospective study was conducted to explore the application effect of HBOT combined with music therapy on patients suffering from aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH). METHODS: For this retrospective study, 130 patients with aSAH after HBOT were selected from our hospital from June 2021 to June 2022. The patients were divided into the observation (n = 70) and control (n = 60) groups based on whether they received music therapy. Comparisons were made on general demographic data, blood flow rate in median cerebral artery (MCA), cerebral vasospasm (CVS), National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS), activities of daily living (ADL) score, Self-Rating Depressive Scale (SDS), and Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) of patients. RESULTS: Baseline data between the two groups showed no statistically significant difference (P > 0.05). After management, patients in the observation group presented significantly lower SAS and SDS scores (P < 0."},{"id":"source_22","type":"source","study":"Comparative Evidence on Negative Pressure Therapy and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Diabetic Foot Ulcers: A Systematic Review of Independent Effectiveness and Clinical Applicability","year":2026,"doi":"10.3390/medicina62010109","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina62010109","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"review-level","cited_as":"Astasio-Picado 2026","excerpt":"Background and Objectives : To evaluate and synthesize evidence on the independent clinical effectiveness, safety, and applicability of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) in diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs), and to determine whether current evidence allows for a direct comparison between both interventions: NPWT and HBOT are widely advanced therapies for DFUs. Although both show benefits, the relative superiority of one over the other remains unclear. Systematic review of the literature conducted in accordance with PRISMA guidelines. Materials and Methods : A comprehensive literature search was performed using two electronic databases. The review included randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and non-randomized studies. Methodological quality and risk of bias were assessed using validated tools: RoB 2.0 for randomized trials, AMSTAR-2 for systematic reviews, and ROBINS-I for non-randomized studies. Results : A total of 22 studies were included. NPT was shown to be effective in accelerating wound healing, though results varied depending on the type of intervention and clinical context."},{"id":"source_23","type":"source","study":"1004. Case Study. Multimodal Plantar Reconstruction Using Dermal Substitutes, Hyperbaric Oxygen, and Negative Pressure Wound Therapy","year":2026,"doi":"10.1093/jbcr/irag033.192","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jbcr/irag033.192","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Sanders 2026","excerpt":"A 45-year-old man with diabetes, severe neuropathy, chronic kidney disease, and prior kidney-pancreas transplant on immunosuppression presented with a 1.5% TBSA plantar full-thickness burn from prolonged heater contact. STSG demonstrated >90% take at 1 month with complete closure, maintained plantar contour, improved function, and avoided the need for a flap or amputation."},{"id":"source_24","type":"source","study":"Application of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the treatment of spinal cord injury: insights from preclinical to clinical evidence","year":2025,"doi":"10.4103/mgr.MEDGASRES-D-24-00111","url":"https://doi.org/10.4103/mgr.MEDGASRES-D-24-00111","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Peng 2025","excerpt":"Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a severe trauma that leads to significant motor, sensory, and autonomic dysfunction, imposing a substantial disease burden and economic costs globally. The pathophysiology of SCI involves primary and secondary injury stages, with the latter characterized by inflammatory responses, apoptosis, and tissue necrosis. Current therapeutic interventions, including pharmacological treatments and stem cell therapies, provide limited benefits and do not fully address the therapeutic effects on SCI. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), which delivers 100% oxygen at pressures exceeding 1 atmosphere absolute, has shown potential in SCI animal models due to its antiapoptotic, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and angiogenesis-promoting effects, thereby limiting secondary injury. Clinical studies have also demonstrated some efficacy of HBOT in treating SCI; however, the optimal timing, duration, and treatment cycles of HBOT remain contentious, and long-term efficacy has yet to be assessed. This review synthesizes the basic research and clinical practice of HBOT for SCI, thereby summarizing the main mechanistic pathways and demonstrating its clinical effects."},{"id":"source_25","type":"source","study":"Rapid Initiation of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Multiple Simultaneous Cases of Acute Carbon Monoxide Poisoning at a Single Center","year":2025,"doi":"10.1093/milmed/usaf100","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usaf100","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Kurokawa 2025","excerpt":"INTRODUCTION: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is used to treat acute carbon monoxide poisoning. However, few reports have detailed its use in large patient cohorts, and optimal management guidelines have yet to be established. Herein, we report the clinical presentation and simultaneous treatment of multiple patients experiencing acute carbon monoxide poisoning on an offshore ship within the territorial waters of Japan. CASE PRESENTATION: Eleven patients were promptly transported to our hospital from a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer owing to accidental acute carbon monoxide poisoning. We opted to treat this incident as a mass casualty and immediately appointed a medical control officer and established medical teams. The medical control officer guided the general treatment plan and coordinated with the various sections, and the medical teams treated the patients. The patients were immediately administered normobaric oxygen via a facial mask. Those with the most severe conditions underwent simultaneous HBOT within 3 hours of hospital arrival. Two and 4 weeks after the second therapy session, all symptoms had resolved, with no physical or cognitive sequelae."},{"id":"source_26","type":"source","study":"Efficacy and safety of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for Parkinson’s disease with cognitive dysfunction: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis","year":2024,"doi":"10.1136/bmjopen-2024-087164","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-087164","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Tan 2024","excerpt":"INTRODUCTION: The presence of cognitive dysfunction notably affects the quality of life in individuals diagnosed with Parkinson's disease (PD) and is often recognised as a non-motor symptom. Comprehensive studies have shown the possible advantages of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) in alleviating cognitive deficits in these individuals. This systematic review aims to investigate the practicality of incorporating HBOT within a more extensive therapeutic framework for PD, with a specific focus on cognitive symptoms. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: A comprehensive literature review will be conducted utilising various databases such as PubMed and Cochrane Library and so on. The duration of the search will encompass the entire timeline from the initiation of each database up to 1 April 2024. This investigation seeks to uncover randomised controlled trials that explore the efficacy and safety of HBOT in patients with PD who are facing cognitive impairments. The authors' autonomous screening and extraction of data will facilitate the attainment of impartial results."},{"id":"source_27","type":"source","study":"Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Experimental Autoimmune Myocarditis: Insights from Preclinical Models to Translational Perspectives","year":2026,"doi":"10.3390/pathophysiology33010018","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/pathophysiology33010018","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Pindovic 2026","excerpt":"Myocarditis is still a major global health issue that frequently manifests due to oxidative stress, immune-mediated myocardial damage, and unpredictable clinical progression. Experiments with autoimmune myocarditis (EAM) models have shown different ways that T-cell subsets, proinflammatory cytokines, macrophage polarization, and mitochondrial dysfunction are all connected and play a part in both acute inflammation and chronic remodeling of the heart. As a possible multimodal intervention that could affect several of these disease-causing pathways, hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has become popular. This therapy delivers 100% oxygen to different tissues at higher atmospheric pressures. Early research shows that HBOT improves the delivery of oxygen to the inflamed myocardium, suppress the activation of NF-κB and NLRP3 inflammasomes, lowers oxidative stress, protects mitochondrial function, and boosts immune-regulatory T-cell responses."},{"id":"source_28","type":"source","study":"825. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Burn Care: A Systematic Review of Current Evidence","year":2026,"doi":"10.1093/jbcr/irag033.264","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jbcr/irag033.264","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"review-level","cited_as":"Molina-Vega 2026b","excerpt":"Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) involves inhaling 100% oxygen at pressures above one atmosphere absolute in a specialized chamber."},{"id":"source_29","type":"source","study":"Integrative Role of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy on Healthspan, Age-Related Vascular Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia","year":2021,"doi":"10.3389/fragi.2021.678543","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fragi.2021.678543","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Balasubramanian 2021","excerpt":"Growing life expectancy will contribute to the on-going shift towards a world population increasingly comprised of elderly individuals. This demographic shift is associated with a rising prevalence of age-related diseases, among all age-related pathologies it has become crucial to understand the age-associated cognitive changes that remain a major risk factor for the development of vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID). Furthermore, age-related Alzheimer's disease and other neurogenerative diseases with vascular etiology are the most prominent contributing factors for the loss of cognitive function observed in aging. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) achieves physiologic effects by increasing oxygen tension (PO2), raising oxygen tissue levels, decreasing intracranial pressure and relieving cerebral edema. Many of the beneficial effects of HBOT exert their protective effects at the level of the microcirculation. 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Positive study-level signals are summarized in the contextual adjacent evidence outcome class, null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence, safety and comorbidity, immune and inflammation outcome classes, and negative signals in no dominant outcome class. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect. The conclusion is that Hyperbaric oxygen remains a bounded geroscience case: the retained clinical and mechanistic evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim.","The conclusion is that Hyperbaric oxygen remains a bounded geroscience case: the retained clinical and mechanistic evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim.","20 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: mixed=1, null=15, positive=2, unclear=2. Directness coding: direct=1, indirect=13, review=6.","Evidence for this outcome class is represented in the structured results table, but the retained narrative paragraphs were more strongly assigned to adjacent outcome classes. The synthesis therefore treats this class as context for cross-domain interpretation rather than as a standalone prose claim.","A fifth limitation is the mechanism-to-clinic gap. There is no curative human RCT in this corpus for Parkinson's disease with cognitive dysfunction (Tancredi-style risk not assessable; the only entry is a protocol, Tan 2024), no long-term randomized data in central retinal artery occlusion beyond the pooled estimate in Bakdalieh 2026, and no adequately powered trial in non-specific age-related vascular decline. The cross-study disagreement count — operationally defined here as any two sources within the same outcome class with opposing directional codes or non-overlapping confidence intervals — totals approximately 75 such pairings in the curated cross-study disagreement map, and that high disagreement rate, against a mechanistic-but-sparse-clinical backdrop, means the present corpus cannot by itself adjudicate whether the mechanistic plausibility translates into clinically meaningful benefit for an aging population.","For Hyperbaric oxygen, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and mechanistic evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation.The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging.","Across 29 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Hyperbaric shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: contextual other. Null findings dominate: contextual other, safety comorbidity. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. The Hyperbaric anti-aging case as currently constituted is incomplete: mechanistic plausibility coexists with mixed or sparse human-RCT evidence, and the boundary conditions remain to be established."]}},{"name":"evidence_table.csv","media_type":"text/csv","content":"study,population,intervention_or_exposure,comparator,endpoint,effect,risk_of_bias,directness\r\nHyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers: A Prospective Randomised Controlled Trial,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\nSerum lactate and carboxyhemoglobin as predictors of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in carbon monoxide poisoning: a retrospective study,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\nHOTFy: randomised clinical trial for hyperbaric oxygen therapy in fibromyalgia,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public 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