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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2018

Associations between Ambient Particulate Matter and Nitrogen Dioxide and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases in Adults and Effect Modification by Demographic and Lifestyle Factors.

Dirga Kumar Lamichhane, Jong Han Leem, Hwan Cheol Kim

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Effects of Particulate Matter on the Incidence of Respiratory Diseases in the Pisan Longitudinal Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Dirga Kumar LamichhaneDepartment of Social and Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Inha University, Incheon 22212, South Korea. dirga_lamichhane@yahoo.com.ORCID 0000-0002-9263-3707
Jong Han LeemDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, College of Medicine, Inha University, Incheon 22212, South Korea. ekeeper21@naver.com.
Hwan Cheol KimDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, College of Medicine, Inha University, Incheon 22212, South Korea. carpediem@inha.ac.kr.
Inha University · KR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study was undertaken to investigate the associations between chronic exposure to particulate matter of medium aerodynamic diameter ≤10 or ≤2.5 µm (PM

Indexed as

AgedAir PollutantsAir PollutionDemographyEnvironmental ExposureFemaleHumansLife StyleMaleMiddle AgedNitrogen DioxideParticulate MatterPrevalencePulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveRepublic of KoreaRespiratory Function TestsAir PollutantsNitrogen DioxideParticulate MatteradultsCOPDlung functionnitrogen dioxideparticulate matter

Identifiers

PMID29463050
PMCPMC5858432
OpenAlexW2791259399

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Registered trials

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