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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Reply to Lucock et al.: Significance of interpretation and misinterpretation of a small mechanistic study.

Jia Zhong, Mary Speck, Bruce Urch, Frances Silverman, Diane R Gold, Petros Koutrakis, Andrea A Baccarelli

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Air pollution and lung function in children.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Jia ZhongMailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032; jiazhong@mail.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4582-6896
Mary SpeckDivision of Occupational & Environmental Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 1AB.
Bruce UrchDivision of Occupational & Environmental Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 1AB.
Frances SilvermanDivision of Occupational & Environmental Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 1AB.
Diane R GoldDepartment of Environmental Health, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115.
Petros KoutrakisDepartment of Environmental Health, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115.
Andrea A BaccarelliMailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032.

Funding

True Metal fac coreP30ES009089 · NIEHS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI MATTHEW S PERZANOWSKI · 1998 to 2026
$44.7M
Translational Research Support CoreP30ES000002 · NIEHS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI JAIME ELIZABETH HART · 1985 to 2026
$44.6M
Epigenetic Effects of Particles and Metals on Cardiac Health of an Aging CohortR01ES015172 · NIEHS · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI SCHWARTZ, JOEL D · 2006 to 2015
$4.8M
BPA, Phthalates & Stress: Mechanisms and Interactions for Childhood ObesityR01ES021357 · NIEHS · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI BACCARELLI, ANDREA, WRIGHT, ROBERT O · 2012 to 2016
$3.3M
Epigenetic Mechanisms of PM-Mediated CVD RiskR01ES020836 · NIEHS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI BACCARELLI, ANDREA, HOU, LIFANG · 2012 to 2016
$3.0M
Molecular and Epigenetic Mitochondriomics of Air Particles, Lead and CognitionR01ES021733 · NIEHS · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI BACCARELLI, ANDREA · 2012 to 2015
$2.4M
Air Pollution, Epigenetics and Cardiovascular Health: A Human Intervention TrialR21ES021895 · NIEHS · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI BACCARELLI, ANDREA · 2012 to 2013
$376k
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Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID28484038
PMCPMC5441801

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