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ReviewFrontiers in public health2016

Chemical Pesticides and Human Health: The Urgent Need for a New Concept in Agriculture.

Polyxeni Nicolopoulou-Stamati, Sotirios Maipas, Chrysanthi Kotampasi, Panagiotis Stamatis, Luc Hens

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Review in Frontiers in public health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 375 papers, 2 of them syntheses that 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

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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

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

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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.

Polyxeni Nicolopoulou-StamatiDepartment of Pathology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens , Athens , Greece.
Sotirios MaipasDepartment of Pathology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens , Athens , Greece.
Chrysanthi KotampasiDepartment of Pathology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens , Athens , Greece.
Panagiotis StamatisDepartment of Pathology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens , Athens , Greece.
Luc HensVlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek (VITO) , Mol , Belgium.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The industrialization of the agricultural sector has increased the chemical burden on natural ecosystems. Pesticides are agrochemicals used in agricultural lands, public health programs, and urban green areas in order to protect plants and humans from various diseases. However, due to their known ability to cause a large number of negative health and environmental effects, their side effects can be an important environmental health risk factor. The urgent need for a more sustainable and ecological approach has produced many innovative ideas, among them agriculture reforms and food production implementing sustainable practice evolving to food sovereignty. It is more obvious than ever that the society needs the implementation of a new agricultural concept regarding food production, which is safer for man and the environment, and to this end, steps such as the declaration of Nyéléni have been taken.

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agrochemicalsendocrine disruptorsenvironmental healthfood sovereigntypesticides

Identifiers

PMID27486573
PMCPMC4947579

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