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ArticleJournal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry2016

Job-related formaldehyde exposure and ALS mortality in the USA.

Andrea L Roberts, Norman J Johnson, Merit E Cudkowicz, Ki-Do Eum, Marc G Weisskopf

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Article in Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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15citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Occupational Exposures: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analyses.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018
    Pooled it
  3. Article
  4. Gut Symptoms, Gut Dysbiosis and Gut-Derived Toxins in ALS.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
    Review
  5. Review
  6. A Gut Feeling in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Microbiome of Mice and Men.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022
    Review
  7. Article
  8. UK case control study of smoking and risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis & frontotemporal degeneration · 2020
    Article
  9. THE AUTHORS REPLY.American journal of epidemiology · 2019
    Article
  10. Article
  11. Review
  12. Occupational formaldehyde and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.European journal of epidemiology · 2017
    Article
  13. Occupational exposures and the risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2017
    Article
  14. Article
  15. Opposite Roles of Co-enzyme Q10 and Formaldehyde in Neurodegenerative Diseases.American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias
    Review
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.

Andrea L RobertsDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5023-4399
Norman J JohnsonUnited States Census Bureau, Washington DC, USA.
Merit E CudkowiczHarvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Neurology, MGH MDA ALS Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Ki-Do EumDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Marc G WeisskopfDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Funding

Translational Research Support CoreP30ES000002 · NIEHS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI SUSAN A KORRICK · 1985 to 2026
$44.6M
Environmental Risk Factors for ALS in a Representative Sample of the USR56NS082105 · NINDS · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI WEISSKOPF, MARC G · 2012 to 2012
$560k
NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES000002NINDS NIH HHS R56 NS082105
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Occupational ExposureAdultAgedAmyotrophic Lateral SclerosisCohort StudiesFemaleFormaldehydeHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleMiddle AgedFormaldehydeALS

Identifiers

PMID26169306
PMCPMC4738165

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