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ReviewAnnual review of public health2017

Assessing the Exposome with External Measures: Commentary on the State of the Science and Research Recommendations.

Michelle C Turner, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Kim Anderson, David Balshaw, Yuxia Cui, Genevieve Dunton, Jane A Hoppin, Petros Koutrakis, Michael Jerrett

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Review in Annual review of public health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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50citing 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

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

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  5. Sharing common measures of the environment across continents: challenges and opportunities for global studies of aging.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2026
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  8. Global research trends on the human exposome: a bibliometric analysis (2005-2024).Environmental science and pollution research international · 2025
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  10. Geospatial Science for the Environmental Epidemiology of Cancer in the Exposome Era.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2024
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  16. Methodological Challenges in Spatial and Contextual Exposome-Health Studies.Critical reviews in environmental science and technology · 2023
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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

9 authors.

Michelle C TurnerBarcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona 08003, Spain; email: michelle.turner@isglobal.org , mark.nieuwenhuijsen@isglobal.org.
Mark NieuwenhuijsenBarcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona 08003, Spain; email: michelle.turner@isglobal.org , mark.nieuwenhuijsen@isglobal.org.
Kim AndersonDepartment of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331; email: kim.anderson@oregonstate.edu.
David BalshawNational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709; email: balshaw@niehs.nih.gov , yuxia.cui@nih.gov.
Yuxia CuiNational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709; email: balshaw@niehs.nih.gov , yuxia.cui@nih.gov.
Genevieve DuntonDepartment of Preventive Medicine and Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033; email: dunton@usc.edu.
Jane A HoppinCenter for Human Health and the Environment, Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695; email: jahoppin@ncsu.edu.
Petros KoutrakisDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115; email: petros@hsph.harvard.edu.
Michael JerrettDivision of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California 94704; email: jerrett@berkeley.edu.

Funding

Research Experience and Training Coordination CoreP42ES016465 · NIEHS · OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY · PI Susan C Tilton · 2009 to 2026
$52.5M
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 ES999999NIEHS NIH HHS P42 ES016465
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The exposome comprises all environmental exposures that a person experiences from conception throughout the life course. Here we review the state of the science for assessing external exposures within the exposome. This article reviews (a) categories of exposures that can be assessed externally, (b) the current state of the science in external exposure assessment, (c) current tools available for external exposure assessment, and (d) priority research needs. We describe major scientific and technological advances that inform external assessment of the exposome, including geographic information systems; remote sensing; global positioning system and geolocation technologies; portable and personal sensing, including smartphone-based sensors and assessments; and self-reported questionnaire assessments, which increasingly rely on Internet-based platforms. We also discuss priority research needs related to methodological and technological improvement, data analysis and interpretation, data sharing, and other practical considerations, including improved assessment of exposure variability as well as exposure in multiple, critical life stages.

Indexed as

Environmental ExposureEpigenomicsGeographic Information SystemsHealth BehaviorHumansLife StyleResearchexposomeexternal exposuresgeographic information systemsglobal positioning systemsremote sensingsmartphones

Identifiers

PMID28384083
PMCPMC7161939

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