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Randomized controlled trials in environmental health research: unethical or underutilized?
Article in PLoS medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Causal inference in the diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian cancer: current state and future directions.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2025Pooled it
- Green Space Quality and Health: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Facing the Realities of Pragmatic Design Choices in Environmental Health Studies: Experiences from the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- Integrative Multi-Omics-Informed Analysis Identifies Insulin Therapy-Associated Loci Implicated in Osteoarthritis Susceptibility.Chemical biology & drug design · 2026Article
- Environmental Exposures and Pediatric Cardiology: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.Circulation · 2024Review
- An overview of systematic reviews on predictors of smoking cessation among young people.PloS one · 2024Review
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- Searching for Intrinsic Causality between Colonic Dysbiosis and Non-Ischemic Cardiomyopathy: A Mendelian Randomization-Based Analysis.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2023Article
- A precision environmental health approach to prevention of human disease.Nature communications · 2023Review
- Invited Perspective: A Critical Part of a Real-World Environmental Health Trial Is to Demonstrate That the Intervention Reduced Exposure.Environmental health perspectives · 2022Article
- Invited Perspective: HEPA Filters-An Effective Way to Prevent Adverse Air Pollution Effects on Neurodevelopment?Environmental health perspectives · 2022Article
- Applying Translational Science Approaches to Protect Workers Exposed to Nanomaterials.Frontiers in public health · 2022Review
- Failure of the "Gold Standard": The Role of a Mixed Methods Research Toolkit and Human-Centered Design in Transformative WASH.Environmental health insights · 2021Article
- Individual- and Household-Level Interventions to Reduce Air Pollution Exposures and Health Risks: a Review of the Recent Literature.Current environmental health reports · 2020Review
- Clinical Trial Data Management in Environmental Health Tailored for an African Setting.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Improving and Expanding Estimates of the Global Burden of Disease Due to Environmental Health Risk Factors.Environmental health perspectives · 2019Article
- Developmental Origins of Disease: Emerging Prenatal Risk Factors and Future Disease Risk.Current epidemiology reports · 2018Article
- Calculation of the disease burden associated with environmental chemical exposures: application of toxicological information in health economic estimation.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2017Review
- When enough data are not enough to enact policy: The failure to ban chlorpyrifos.PLoS biology · 2017Article
- Assessing the Health Impact of Water Quality Interventions in Low-Income Settings: Concerns Associated with Blinded Trials and the Need for Objective Outcomes.Environmental health perspectives · 2016Article
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