ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2017
Asian Americans and disproportionate exposure to carcinogenic hazardous air pollutants: A national study.
Article in Social science & medicine (1982), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled 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.
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.
Who cites it
42 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Hazardous Environmental Pollutants and Cancer Disparities: A Systematic Review on the Consideration of Race and Ethnicity in Environmental Epidemiology Research.Current environmental health reports · 2025Pooled it
- Long-Term Industrial Emissions Exposure and Cognitive Impairment in Older U.S. Adults: A Longitudinal Cohort Study.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Impact of air pollution and population vulnerability on cancer mortality in the United States: A scoping review.The Science of the total environment · 2026Article
- Environmental racism: associations between poverty, pollution, and pediatric gun violence.BMC pediatrics · 2025Observational
- Social Determinants of Health and Allergic Disease Prevalence Among Asian American Children.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Editorial: The impact of specific environmental exposures on breast, lung, and colon cancer: advancing public health strategies for enhanced outcomes.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Ethnic Enclaves and Incidence of Cancer Among US Ethnic Minorities in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Article
- Environmental Inequality in Estimated Cancer Risk from Airborne Toxic Exposure across United States Communities from 2011 to 2019.Environmental science & technology · 2024Article
- Characterizing Lung Cancer Burden Among Asian-American Communities in Philadelphia.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Article
- Article
- Sociodemographic inequities in the burden of carcinogenic industrial air emissions in the United States.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2024Article
- Inequalities in Environmental Cancer Risk and Carcinogen Exposures: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Historical red-lining is associated with fossil fuel power plant siting and present-day inequalities in air pollutant emissions.Nature energy · 2023Article
- Disparities in Air Pollutants Across Racial, Ethnic, and Poverty Groups at US Public Schools.GeoHealth · 2022Article
- Article
- Both parents matter: a national-scale analysis of parental race/ethnicity, disparities in prenatal PMEnvironmental health : a global access science source · 2022Article
- Carcinogenic Risk Assessment among Children and Adult due to Exposure to Toxic Air Pollutants.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Article
- High-resolution gridded estimates of population sociodemographics from the 2020 census in California.PloS one · 2022Article
- An exploratory analysis of sociodemographic characteristics with ultrafine particle concentrations in Boston, MA.PloS one · 2022Article
- We Need Environmental Health Justice Research and Action for LGBTQ+ People.American journal of public health · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Studies have demonstrated disparate exposures to carcinogenic hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) in neighborhoods with high densities of Black and Hispanic residents in the US. Asians are the fastest growing racial/ethnic group in the US, yet they have been underemphasized in previous studies of environmental health and injustice. This cross-sectional study investigated possible disparities in residential exposure to carcinogenic HAPs among Asian Americans, including Asian American subgroups in the US (including all 50 states and the District of Columbia, n = 71,208 US census tracts) using National Air Toxics Assessment and US Census data. In an unadjusted analysis, Chinese and Korean Americans experience the highest mean cancer risks from HAPs, followed by Blacks. The aggregated Asian category ranks just below Blacks and above Hispanics, in terms of carcinogenic HAP risk. Multivariate models adjusting for socioeconomic status, population density, urban location, and geographic clustering show that an increase in proportion of Asian residents in census tracts is associated with significantly greater cancer risk from HAPs. Neighborhoods with higher proportions (as opposed to lower proportions) of Chinese, Korean, and South Asian residents have significantly greater cancer risk burdens relative to Whites. Tracts with higher concentrations of Asians speaking a non-English language and Asians that are US-born have significantly greater cancer risk burdens. Asian Americans experience substantial residential exposure to carcinogenic HAPs in US census tracts and in the US more generally.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.