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ArticleEnvironmental health perspectives2017

Fetal Thyroid Function, Birth Weight, and

Bram G Janssen, Nelly D Saenen, Harry A Roels, Narjes Madhloum, Wilfried Gyselaers, Wouter Lefebvre, Joris Penders, Charlotte Vanpoucke, Karen Vrijens, Tim S Nawrot

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Article in Environmental health perspectives, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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57citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.5field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

57 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 138 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Bram G JanssenCentre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium.
Nelly D Saenen
Harry A Roels
Narjes Madhloum
Wilfried Gyselaers
Wouter Lefebvre
Joris Penders
Charlotte Vanpoucke
Karen Vrijens
Tim S Nawrot
Hasselt University · BEZiekenhuis Oost-Limburg · BEBelgian Development Agency · BEFlemish Institute for Technological Research · BE

Funding

European Research Council 310898
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThyroid hormones are critical for fetal development and growth. Whether prenatal exposure to fine particle air pollution (≤ 2.5 μm; PM

objectivesWe studied the impact of third-trimester PM

methodsWe measured the levels of free thyroid hormones (FT

resultsAn interquartile range (IQR) increment (8.2 μg/m

conclusionsIn our study population of normal healthy pregnancies, third-trimester exposure to PM

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Birth WeightAdultAir PollutantsAir PollutionBelgiumCohort StudiesFemaleFetal BloodFetal DevelopmentHumansMaleMaternal ExposureParticulate MatterPregnancyPregnancy Trimester, ThirdThyroid GlandAir PollutantsParticulate MatterThyroid HormonesThyrotropin

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PMID27623605
PMCPMC5382000
OpenAlexW2519744589

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