ArticleAir quality, atmosphere, & health2013
Ambient particulate air pollution and acute lower respiratory infections: a systematic review and implications for estimating the global burden of disease.
Article in Air quality, atmosphere, & health, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 105 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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105 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Short-term and long-term effects of air pollution on acute lower respiratory infections incidence and mortality: an overview and critical appraisal of systematic reviews.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025Pooled it
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- A systematic review of financial implications of air pollution on health in Asia.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2018Pooled it
- Concentration-Response Relationship between PMBioMed research international · 2017Pooled it
- Addressing equity in interventions to reduce air pollution in urban areas: a systematic review.International journal of public health · 2014Pooled it
- Outdoor fine particles and nonfatal strokes: systematic review and meta-analysis.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2014Pooled it
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- Association of air pollution and prior COVID-19 with atopic dermatitis risk: an interaction analysis in the UK biobank.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Influence of transboundary wildfire smoke on fine particulate matter concentrations at South Texas border schools.NPJ clean air · 2026Article
- Effect of particulate matter pollution on the global burden of lower respiratory infections in children and adolescents, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis from the global burden of disease study 2021.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Effects of environment and globalization on the double and triple burdens of infection symptoms among under-five children across low-middle income countries using machine learning algorithms.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2025Article
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Abstract
Acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) account for nearly one fifth of mortality in young children worldwide and have been associated with exposures to indoor and outdoor sources of combustion-derived air pollution. A systematic review was conducted to identify relevant articles on air pollution and ALRI in children. Using a Bayesian approach to meta-analysis, a summary estimate of 1.12 (1.03, 1.30) increased risk in ALRI occurrence per 10 μg/m
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