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ReviewThe Science of the total environment2018

Wildland fire smoke and human health.

Wayne E Cascio

Registry-linked trialAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in The Science of the total environment, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05944770 (ASPIRE), which is not on this map. Cited by 223 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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223citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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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.

NCT05944770 naunknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2023, after this paper: background citation

ASPIRE (Advancing Science Partnerships for Indoor Reductions of Smoke Exposures)-Health Tulare County

TypeinterventionalSponsorEnvironmental Protection Agency (EPA)Ran2023 to 2023Enrolled80ConditionsRespiratory Tract Diseases, Cardiovascular DiseasesArmsDIY portable air cleaner with a highly effective filter, DIY portable air cleaner with sham filtration
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

223 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Association between extreme weather events and postoperative adverse outcomes: a systematic review.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2025
    Pooled it
  2. Health Effects of Wildfire Smoke Exposure.Annual review of medicine · 2024
    Pooled it
  3. The Effect of Fire Smoke Exposure on Firefighters' Lung Function: A Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
    Pooled it
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  10. Burning issues: trends in newspaper coverage of wildfire events and health.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2026
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  15. Functional Variant Discovery Identifies a Novel Genetic Link between SPRY2, Wood Smoke, and Asthma.American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology · 2026
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  17. Characterization of woodsmoke generated in the air pollution exposure lab and comparison to diesel exhaust.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2026
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  19. Long-term exposure to wildfire smoke and mortality: Heterogeneous effects by exposure metric and across subpopulations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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163 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

1 author.

Wayne E CascioNational Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, US EPA, United States. Electronic address: cascio.wayne@epa.gov.

Funding

Intramural EPA EPA999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The natural cycle of landscape fire maintains the ecological health of the land, yet adverse health effects associated with exposure to emissions from wildfire produce public health and clinical challenges. Systematic reviews conclude that a positive association exists between exposure to wildfire smoke or wildfire particulate matter (PM

Indexed as

WildfiresAir PollutantsEnvironmental ExposureHumansParticulate MatterPublic HealthSmokeAir PollutantsParticulate MatterSmokeAir pollutionHealth effectsParticulate matter, PM(2.5)SmokeWildfire emissions

Identifiers

PMID29272827
PMCPMC6697173

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