The study has contributed to the debate as to whether it is beneficial to treat fever in children, an issue comprehensively reviewed by Fiona Russell and colleagues in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. They propose that the available scientific evidence suggests that fever is a universal, ancient, and usually beneficial response to infection, and that its suppression under most circumstances has few if any demonstrable benefits.
这项研究再一次引发了人们关于对儿童的发热症状是否有益的争论，Fiona Russell及其同事在世界卫生组织的公告中对这一问题进行了全面的探讨。他们指出目前可获得的科学证据表明发热是对感染的一种通用、古老并且通常是有益的回应，大多数情况下对它的抑制所获得的可论证的益处即便有也是极少的。