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ReviewCurrent environmental health reports2017

The Interplay of Climate Change and Air Pollution on Health.

H Orru, K L Ebi, B Forsberg

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Review in Current environmental health reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 130 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
130citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
10.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

130 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 455 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Extreme weather and asthma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2023
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  7. Revisiting 'environmental effects': Directions for multidisciplinary investigations of air quality and psychopathology.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2026
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  8. Analysis of Spontaneous Plant Species in an Urban Green Space in Southern Spain.Plant-environment interactions (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026
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  12. Weathering the storm: Effect of climate change on acute stroke care and stroke rehabilitation.PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation · 2026
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  13. Air pollution and heat wave seriously affect the quality of life of children with obstructive sleep apnea.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2026
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70 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

3 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

H OrruDepartment of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of Tartu, Ravila 19, 50411, Tartu, Estonia. hans.orru@ut.ee.
K L EbiCenter for Health and the Global Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
B ForsbergDepartment of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, Umea, Sweden.
Umeå University · SEUniversity of Tartu · EEUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewAir pollution significantly affects health, causing up to 7 million premature deaths annually with an even larger number of hospitalizations and days of sick leave. Climate change could alter the dispersion of primary pollutants, particularly particulate matter, and intensify the formation of secondary pollutants, such as near-surface ozone. The purpose of the review is to evaluate the recent evidence on the impacts of climate change on air pollution and air pollution-related health impacts and identify knowledge gaps for future research. RECENT

findingsSeveral studies modelled future ozone and particulate matter concentrations and calculated the resulting health impacts under different climate scenarios. Due to climate change, ozone- and fine particle-related mortalities are expected to increase in most studies; however, results differ by region, assumed climate change scenario and other factors such as population and background emissions. This review explores the relationships between climate change, air pollution and air pollution-related health impacts. The results highly depend on the climate change scenario used and on projections of future air pollution emissions, with relatively high uncertainty. Studies primarily focused on mortality; projections on the effects on morbidity are needed.

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Climate ChangeEnvironmental ExposurePublic HealthAir PollutantsAir PollutionHumansOzoneParticulate MatterAir PollutantsOzoneParticulate MatterClimate scenariosDispersionEmissionFine particlesOzoneUncertainty

Identifiers

PMID29080073
PMCPMC5676805
OpenAlexW2765153103

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