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ArticleScientific reports2017

Ambient air pollution, smog episodes and mortality in Jinan, China.

Jun Zhang, Yao Liu, Liang-Liang Cui, Shou-Qin Liu, Xi-Xiang Yin, Huai-Chen Li

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Jun ZhangJinan Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan, Shandong, 250021, China.
Yao LiuDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, 250021, China.
Liang-Liang CuiJinan Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan, Shandong, 250021, China.
Shou-Qin LiuJinan Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan, Shandong, 250021, China.
Xi-Xiang YinJinan Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, 250000, China.
Huai-Chen LiDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, 250021, China. lihuaichen@163.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We aimed to assess the acute effects of ambient air pollution and weather conditions on mortality in the context of Chinese smog episodes. A total of 209,321 deaths were recorded in Jinan, a large city in eastern China, during 2011-15. The mean concentrations of daily particulate matter ≤10 μm (PM

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MortalityAge DistributionAir PollutionChinaFemaleHumansMaleRisk AssessmentSeasonsSex DistributionSmogSurvival AnalysisWeatherSmog

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PMID28894179
PMCPMC5593894

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