ArticleThe New England journal of medicine2017
Air Pollution and Mortality in the Medicare Population.
Article in The New England journal of medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 3 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 611 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Measuring Knowledge and Behavior After an Educational Program on Air Pollution as a Health Risk Reduction Strategy
Reducing AIR Pollution Exposure to Lower Blood PRESSURE
Presence of Environmental Pollutants in Human Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaques and Their Relationship With the Plaque Phenotype and Clinical Outcomes
Who cites it
611 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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Abstract
backgroundStudies have shown that long-term exposure to air pollution increases mortality. However, evidence is limited for air-pollution levels below the most recent National Ambient Air Quality Standards. Previous studies involved predominantly urban populations and did not have the statistical power to estimate the health effects in underrepresented groups.
methodsWe constructed an open cohort of all Medicare beneficiaries (60,925,443 persons) in the continental United States from the years 2000 through 2012, with 460,310,521 person-years of follow-up. Annual averages of fine particulate matter (particles with a mass median aerodynamic diameter of less than 2.5 μm [PM
resultsIncreases of 10 μg per cubic meter in PM
conclusionsIn the entire Medicare population, there was significant evidence of adverse effects related to exposure to PM
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