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ArticleMcGill journal of medicine : MJM : an international forum for the advancement of medical sciences by students2007

Asbestos: mining exposure, health effects and policy implications.

Kristina Luus

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Article in McGill journal of medicine : MJM : an international forum for the advancement of medical sciences by students, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Influence of the Microbiome Metagenomics and Epigenomics on Gastric Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Kristina Luuskluus@dal.ca

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to review research in the health effects and risks associated with exposure to asbestos and then to use this scientific evidence to analyze the implications of Canada's current policy on the use, manufacturing and export of asbestos. The review begins with a brief historical introduction to asbestos, and then moves on to look at the risks associated with asbestos exposure. Epidemiological and in vitro studies are then analyzed to determine the health risks of asbestos, with a specific focus on the different effects of serpentine and amphibole asbestos fibres. The paper then concludes with an analysis of Canadian policy in light of established scientific evidence and with a discussion of the possible implications of a gap between scientific knowledge and public policy.

Identifiers

PMID18523609
PMCPMC2323486
OpenAlexW1660939777

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Registered trials

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