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SynthesisInternational journal of public health2017

Short-term effects of fine particulate matter pollution on daily health events in Latin America: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Laís Fajersztajn, Paulo Saldiva, Luiz Alberto Amador Pereira, Victor Figueiredo Leite, Anna Maria Buehler

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Synthesis in International journal of public health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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  6. Urban and socioeconomic disparities in PMEnvironmental research letters : ERL [Web site] · 2025
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  7. Short-term ambient PMEnvironmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2025
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  18. PMAir quality, atmosphere, & health · 2021
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  20. PMEnvironmental health : a global access science source · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Laís FajersztajnLaboratory of Experimental Air Pollution (LIM05), Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. laisfajer@gmail.com.
Paulo SaldivaLaboratory of Experimental Air Pollution (LIM05), Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Luiz Alberto Amador PereiraCollective Health Pos-Graduation Program, Catholic University of Santos, Santos, SP, Brazil.
Victor Figueiredo LeiteInstitute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Anna Maria BuehlerHealth Technology Assessment Unit, Institute of Health Education and Science, German Hospital Oswaldo Cruz, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesAmbient air pollution is among the leading risks for health worldwide and by 2050 will largely overcome deaths due to unsafe sanitation and malaria, but local evidence from Latin America (LA) is scarce. We aimed to summarize the effect of short-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution (PM

methodsThe comprehensive search (six online databases and hand-searching) identified studies investigating the short-term associations between PM

resultsWe retrieved 1628 studies. Nine were elected for the qualitative analysis and seven for the quantitative analyses. Each 10 µg/m

conclusionsShort-term exposure to PM

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Air PollutionCardiovascular DiseasesEnvironmental ExposureHumansLatin AmericaParticulate MatterRespiratory Tract DiseasesRiskParticulate MatterAir pollutionFine particulate matterLatin AmericaMortalityParticulate matterPM2.5Systematic review and meta-analysis

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