Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27343184›Full record

ArticleOccupational and environmental medicine2016

Traffic pollution and the incidence of cardiorespiratory outcomes in an adult cohort in London.

I M Carey, H R Anderson, R W Atkinson, S Beevers, D G Cook, D Dajnak, J Gulliver, F J Kelly

Abstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Occupational and environmental medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
46citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
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

46 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Pooled it
  3. Pooled it
  4. Pooled it
  5. Long-Term PMJournal of the American Heart Association · 2021
    Pooled it
  6. Characteristics of cohort studies of long-term exposure to PMEnvironmental science and pollution research international · 2019
    Pooled it
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Impact of Residential Noise Exposure on Neurological Health: A Systematic Scoping Review.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2025
    Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Review
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Review
  18. Review
  19. Article
  20. Article
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

8 authors.

I M CareyPopulation Health Research Institute, St George's University of London, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1099-8460
H R AndersonMRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, King's College London, London, UK.
R W AtkinsonPopulation Health Research Institute, St George's University of London, London, UK.
S BeeversMRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, King's College London, London, UK.
D G CookPopulation Health Research Institute, St George's University of London, London, UK.
D DajnakMRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, King's College London, London, UK.
J GulliverUK Small Area Health Statistics Unit, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College, London, UK.
F J KellyMRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, King's College London, London, UK.

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesThe epidemiological evidence for adverse health effects of long-term exposure to air and noise pollution from traffic is not coherent. Further, the relative roles of background versus near traffic pollution concentrations in this process are unclear. We investigated relationships between modelled concentrations of air and noise pollution from traffic and incident cardiorespiratory disease in London.

methodsAmong 211 016 adults aged 40-79 years registered in 75 Greater London practices between 2005 and 2011, the first diagnosis for a range of cardiovascular and respiratory outcomes were identified from primary care and hospital records. Annual baseline concentrations for nitrogen oxide (NO

resultsThe largest observed associations were between traffic-related air pollution and heart failure (HR=1.10 for 20 μg/m

conclusionsThe associations observed with heart failure may suggest exacerbatory effects rather than underlying chronic disease. However, the overall failure to observe wider associations with traffic pollution may reflect that exposure estimates based on residence inadequately represent the relevant pattern of personal exposure, and future studies must address this issue.

Indexed as

Vehicle EmissionsAdultAgedAir PollutantsAir PollutionCardiovascular DiseasesCohort StudiesEnvironmental ExposureFemaleHeart FailureHumansIncidenceLondonMaleMedical RecordsMiddle AgedAir PollutantsParticulate MatterVehicle Emissions

Identifiers

PMID27343184
PMCPMC5241502

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.