Evidence map›Paper›PMID 25894943›Full record

ReviewCurrent diabetes reports2015

Ambient air pollution: an emerging risk factor for diabetes mellitus.

Xiaoquan Rao, Jessica Montresor-Lopez, Robin Puett, Sanjay Rajagopalan, Robert D Brook

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Review in Current diabetes reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
56citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
7.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

56 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 114 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Epidemiological and mechanistic links between PMFrontiers in endocrinology · 2025
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  4. Occupational particle exposure and diabetes: a cohort study in Swedish construction workers.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2026
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  10. Water, Soil, Noise, and Light Pollution: JACC Focus Seminar, Part 2.Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2024
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  11. Air pollution exposure and cardiometabolic risk.The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology · 2024
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  14. PMInternational journal of cardiology. Cardiovascular risk and prevention · 2023
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  15. Fine particulate matter (PMThe Science of the total environment · 2023
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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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Xiaoquan RaoDivision of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Jessica Montresor-Lopez
Robin Puett
Sanjay Rajagopalan
Robert D Brook
University of Maryland, Baltimore · USUniversity of Maryland, College Park · US

Funding

Air Pollution and Hypertension: Vascular MechanismsR01ES015146 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI RAJAGOPALAN, SANJAY · 2007 to 2018
$4.5M
Environmental Triggers of Cardiometabolic DiseaseR01ES019616 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI BROOK, ROBERT DANIEL, RAJAGOPALAN, SANJAY · 2011 to 2020
$3.0M
Air Pollution, Subclinical CVD, and Inflammatory Markers in the SEARCH CohortR01ES019168 · NIEHS · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI PUETT, ROBIN · 2011 to 2014
$2.3M
Diet-Environment Interactions in InflammationR01ES017290 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI RAJAGOPALAN, SANJAY · 2010 to 2014
$1.8M
NIEHS NIH HHS R01ES015146-06NIEHS NIH HHS R01ES017290-05NIEHS NIH HHS R01ES019168NIEHS NIH HHS R01ES019616-04
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Growing evidence supports that air pollution has become an important risk factor for developing diabetes mellitus. Understanding the contributing effect of air pollution in population studies, elucidating the potential mechanisms involved, and identifying the most responsible pollutants are all required in order to promulgate successful changes in policy and to help formulate preventive measures in an effort to reduce the risk for diabetes. This review summarizes recent findings from epidemiologic studies and mechanistic insights that provide links between exposure to air pollution and a heightened risk for diabetes.

Indexed as

Air PollutionDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2HumansIncidenceInhalation ExposureParticulate MatterRisk FactorsParticulate Matter

Identifiers

PMID25894943
OpenAlexW2014201856

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