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# Hypothesis-Generating Brief: Hyperbaric oxygen — full paper

## Abstract

This paper synthesizes evidence on Hyperbaric oxygen across 29 accepted source papers and 737 high-confidence extracted claims.

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.

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.

## Methods

### Review type and protocol
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`.

### Information sources
Sources 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.

### Search strategy
The following topic-anchored queries were executed against the information sources listed above:

- `hyperbaric oxygen therapy AND aging`
- `HBOT AND telomere AND senescence`
- `hyperbaric oxygen AND cognition AND older adults`
- `HBOT AND safety AND randomized trial`
- `hyperbaric oxygen AND anti-aging`

### Eligibility criteria
- Sources whose primary content addresses hyperbaric oxygen hbot.
- Sources with extractable quantitative or qualitative findings.
- Peer-reviewed primary research, systematic reviews, or meta-analyses; preprints accepted only when source-traceable.
- Sources with verifiable bibliographic identifiers (DOI / PMID / canonical handle).

### Selection of sources of evidence
The 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.

### source admission funnel

| Admission bucket | n |
|---|---:|
| Receipt candidate union | 165 |
| Classified source candidates | 45 |
| No extractable claims | 38 |
| None-only claim binding | 11 |
| Mixed partial-or-none claim-binding candidates | 45 |
| Partial-only claim-binding candidates | 22 |
| Strict high-confidence sources | 4 |
| Admitted final sources | 29 |

### Exclusion reasons
- 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.

### Data items
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.

### Risk-of-bias appraisal
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.

### Synthesis approach
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.

### AI-use disclosure
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.

### Accountability
Accountability 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.

## Results

**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.

| Evidence domain | Corpus slice | Strongest signal | Directness | Main limitation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Deficiency Prevalence | n=2; claims=115 | no extracted directional signal in 2/2 sources | 2 indirect | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |

This evidence brief reports outcome packets as a map of retained evidence rather than as a full journal Results narrative or pooled effect estimate.

### Contextual Adjacent Evidence Outcomes

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.

### Safety Comorbidity Outcomes

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.

### Deficiency Prevalence Outcomes

2 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=2. Directness coding: indirect=2.

### Immune Inflammation Outcomes

2 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=2. Directness coding: indirect=1, mechanistic=1.

1 included source were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1. Directness coding: mechanistic=1.

### Immune Outcomes

See the structured evidence table for Immune Outcomes signals.

## Limitations

**Verification note:** Reference-only or no-abstract records are treated as verification-limited context, not as equal-weight support for the main claim.

The 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.

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.

A 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.

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.

## Conclusion

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.

## What This Synthesis Adds

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.

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.

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.

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.

### Boundary-Condition Matrix

| Evidence domain | Direct sources | Indirect / mechanism sources | Direction profile | Interpretation boundary |
|---|---:|---:|---|---|
| immune and inflammation | 0 | 1 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |
| deficiency prevalence | 0 | 2 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |
| immune and inflammation | 0 | 2 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |
| contextual adjacent evidence | 1 | 19 | mixed, null, positive, unclear | conflict-resolution gap |
| safety and comorbidity | 1 | 3 | null, unclear | replication gap |

### Evidence-Gap Priority

| Priority | Gap | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| P1 | immune and inflammation: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 1 indirect source; direction profile: null |
| P2 | deficiency prevalence: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 2 indirect sources; direction profile: null |
| P3 | immune and inflammation: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 2 indirect sources; direction profile: null |
| P4 | contextual adjacent evidence: conflict-resolution gap | 1 direct and 19 indirect sources; direction profile: mixed, null, positive, unclear |
| P5 | safety and comorbidity: replication gap | 1 direct and 3 indirect sources; direction profile: null, unclear |

### Next-Study Design Recommendation

The 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.

## Evidence Snapshot

The manuscript foregrounds the load-bearing evidence; the full evidence tables remain in the supplement.

### Load-Bearing Included Studies

- Nikolic 2026; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=safety comorbidity; direction=null.
- Neto 2026; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=p≤0.02.
- Wang 2025; tier=B1; directness=review; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=positive; representative statistic=P < 0.00001.
- Molina-Vega 2026; tier=B1; directness=review; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=mixed; representative statistic=P < 0.005.
- Aykut 2025; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=deficiency prevalence; direction=null; representative statistic=P = 0.120.
- Lee 2025; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=P = 0.070.
- Rong 2026; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=deficiency prevalence; direction=null.
- Kim 2026; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=P = 0.136.
- Iaconetta 2026; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.
- Alp 2026; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=P = 0.216.

### Source Classification Map

Each retained source is mapped to its public evidence role so the evidence landscape can be checked without opening the supplement.

- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers: A Prospective Randomised Controlled Trial: outcome=safety comorbidity; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=null; claims=75.
- HOTFy: randomised clinical trial for hyperbaric oxygen therapy in fibromyalgia: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=direct; tier=A1; direction=null; claims=64.
- 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.
- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Burn Care: A Systematic Review of Current Evidence: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B1; direction=mixed; claims=20.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in the Treatment of Crohn’s Disease: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=24.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.

### Classification Criteria

- **Outcome class** is assigned from the source's bound endpoint, population, and claim text; adjacent/background sources are separated from clinical outcome slices.
- **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.
- **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.
- **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.

### Load-Bearing Tensions

- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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

Additional 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.

## References

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- **Aykut 2025.** _Serum lactate and carboxyhemoglobin as predictors of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in carbon monoxide poisoning: a retrospective study._ BMC Emergency Medicine, 2025. DOI: 10.1186/s12873-025-01410-w. PMID: 41340096.
- **Neto 2026.** _HOTFy: randomised clinical trial for hyperbaric oxygen therapy in fibromyalgia._ BMJ Open, 2026. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112284. PMID: 42225366.
- **Lee 2025.** _Risk Factors for Middle Ear Barotrauma in Patients with Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Undergoing Monoplace Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study._ Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2025. DOI: 10.3390/jcm14092984. PMID: 40364015.
- **Rong 2026.** _The awakening effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy combined with systematic auditory stimulation in comatose patients with craniocerebral injury and its influence on serum biomarkers._ Frontiers in Neurology, 2026. DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2026.1775204. PMID: 42256554.
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- **Wang 2025.** _Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for radiation enteritis and clinical parameters: a systematic review and meta-analysis._ Frontiers in Medicine, 2025. DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1632414. PMID: 41140687.
- **Iaconetta 2026.** _Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Traumatic and Non-Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries: Insights from Nearly Five Decades of Evidence with Single-Center Experience._ Brain Sciences, 2026. DOI: 10.3390/brainsci16020165.
- **Fang 2025.** _Clinical efficacy and mechanisms of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the treatment of rheumatic and immune diseases._ Frontiers in Medicine, 2025. DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1706637. PMID: 41488082.
- **Alp 2026.** _Do Different Durations of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Affect the Microleakage of Bulk-Fill Composites?._ Journal of Functional Biomaterials, 2026. DOI: 10.3390/jfb17050209. PMID: 42188376.
- **Xu 2026.** _Optimizing hyperbaric oxygen initiation time in carbon monoxide poisoning: a 3-hour window enhances neurological recovery via lactate clearance._ Open Medicine, 2026. DOI: 10.1515/med-2025-1351. PMID: 41726145.
- **Woo 2025.** _Hematological safety of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in oncology: Stratified analysis by chemotherapy and herbal medicine use._ Medicine, 2025. DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000044893. PMID: 41088600.
- **Shlifer 2025.** _Hyperbaric oxygen therapy improves post-concussion symptoms in adults with childhood traumatic brain injury: a retrospective cohort study._ Frontiers in Neurology, 2025. DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2025.1641033. PMID: 40969214.
- **Krstulovic 2025.** _Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in the Treatment of Crohn’s Disease._ Healthcare, 2025. DOI: 10.3390/healthcare13020128. PMID: 39857155.
- **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.
- **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.
- **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. PMID: 41624627.
- **Molina-Vega 2026.** _Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Burn Care: A Systematic Review of Current Evidence._ Journal of Burn Care & Research: Official Publication of the American Burn Association, 2026. DOI: 10.1093/jbcr/irag026. PMID: 41700783.
- **Zhang 2026.** _Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy on Cerebral Activity in Stroke Patients Based on fNIRS._ Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. DOI: 10.3390/s26061794. PMID: 41901962.
- **Wu 2024.** _Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Combined with Music Therapy on Brain Function and Mental Health of Patients with Aneurismal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Retrospective Study._ Noise & Health, 2024. DOI: 10.4103/nah.nah_19_24. PMID: 39345062.
- **Adi 2026.** _Adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen therapy for chronic diabetic foot ulcer unresponsive to standard care: A case report._ BioMedicine, 2026. DOI: 10.37796/2211-8039.1693. PMID: 41799035.
- **Astasio-Picado 2026.** _Comparative Evidence on Negative Pressure Therapy and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Diabetic Foot Ulcers: A Systematic Review of Independent Effectiveness and Clinical Applicability._ Medicina, 2026. DOI: 10.3390/medicina62010109. PMID: 41597395.
- **Sanders 2026.** _1004. Case Study. Multimodal Plantar Reconstruction Using Dermal Substitutes, Hyperbaric Oxygen, and Negative Pressure Wound Therapy._ Journal of Burn Care & Research: Official Publication of the American Burn Association, 2026. DOI: 10.1093/jbcr/irag033.192.
- **Tan 2024.** _Efficacy and safety of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for Parkinson’s disease with cognitive dysfunction: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis._ BMJ Open, 2024. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-087164. PMID: 39572094.
- **Peng 2025.** _Application of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the treatment of spinal cord injury: insights from preclinical to clinical evidence._ Medical Gas Research, 2025. DOI: 10.4103/mgr.MEDGASRES-D-24-00111. PMID: 40580186.
- **Kurokawa 2025.** _Rapid Initiation of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Multiple Simultaneous Cases of Acute Carbon Monoxide Poisoning at a Single Center._ Military Medicine, 2025. DOI: 10.1093/milmed/usaf100. PMID: 40178904.
- **Pindovic 2026.** _Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Experimental Autoimmune Myocarditis: Insights from Preclinical Models to Translational Perspectives._ Pathophysiology, 2026. DOI: 10.3390/pathophysiology33010018. PMID: 41718396.
- **Molina-Vega 2026b.** _825. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Burn Care: A Systematic Review of Current Evidence._ Journal of Burn Care & Research: Official Publication of the American Burn Association, 2026. DOI: 10.1093/jbcr/irag033.264.
- **Balasubramanian 2021.** _Integrative Role of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy on Healthspan, Age-Related Vascular Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia._ Frontiers in Aging, 2021. DOI: 10.3389/fragi.2021.678543. PMID: 35821996.

### Background References

*Methodological references cited in prose. Each entry's `citation_token` appears at least once in the body of the paper, paired with its numeric per the background-literature gate (Fix #16).*

- **Ioannidis 2005.** _Ioannidis JPA. Why most published research findings are false. PLoS Med. 2005;2(8):e124._ (methodological reference) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124. PMID: 16060722.

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