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ReviewChest2019

Air Pollution and Noncommunicable Diseases: A Review by the Forum of International Respiratory Societies' Environmental Committee, Part 2: Air Pollution and Organ Systems.

Dean E Schraufnagel, John R Balmes, Clayton T Cowl, Sara De Matteis, Soon-Hee Jung, Kevin Mortimer, Rogelio Perez-Padilla, Mary B Rice, Horacio Riojas-Rodriguez, Akshay Sood and 4 more

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Review in Chest, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 268 papers, 16 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
268citing papers in PubMed, 16 pooled it
35.3field-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

268 citing papers in PubMed, 16 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 793 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Effects of the inhaled dose of air pollution on health: a systematic review.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025
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  15. Environmental and Occupational Short-Term Exposure to Airborne Particles and FEVInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  16. Exposure to outdoor air pollution at different periods and the risk of leukemia: a meta-analysis.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021
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208 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

14 authors at 13 institutions in 6 countries.

Dean E SchraufnagelPulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. Electronic address: schrauf@uic.edu.
John R BalmesDepartment of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
Clayton T CowlDivisions of Preventive, Occupational, and Aerospace Medicine and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
Sara De MatteisNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Soon-Hee JungDepartment of Pathology, Wonju Colleage of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.
Kevin MortimerLiverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Rogelio Perez-PadillaNational Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Mexico City, Mexico.
Mary B RiceDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Horacio Riojas-RodriguezNational Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca Morelos, Mexico.
Akshay SoodPulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM.
George D ThurstonDepartments of Environmental Medicine and Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY.
Teresa ToThe Hospital for Sick Children, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Anessa VankerDepartment of Paediatrics and Child Health & MRC Unit on Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Donald J WuebblesSchool of Earth, Society, and Environment, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.
Harvard University · USHospital for Sick Children · CAImperial College London · GBInstituto Nacional de Salud Pública · MXLiverpool School of Tropical Medicine · GBMayo Clinic in Arizona · USNew York University · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · USUniversity of Cape Town · ZAUniversity of Illinois Chicago · USUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · USUniversity of New Mexico · USYonsei University · KR

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/L002515/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although air pollution is well known to be harmful to the lung and airways, it can also damage most other organ systems of the body. It is estimated that about 500,000 lung cancer deaths and 1.6 million COPD deaths can be attributed to air pollution, but air pollution may also account for 19% of all cardiovascular deaths and 21% of all stroke deaths. Air pollution has been linked to other malignancies, such as bladder cancer and childhood leukemia. Lung development in childhood is stymied with exposure to air pollutants, and poor lung development in children predicts lung impairment in adults. Air pollution is associated with reduced cognitive function and increased risk of dementia. Particulate matter in the air (particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter < 2.5 μm) is associated with delayed psychomotor development and lower child intelligence. Studies link air pollution with diabetes mellitus prevalence, morbidity, and mortality. Pollution affects the immune system and is associated with allergic rhinitis, allergic sensitization, and autoimmunity. It is also associated with osteoporosis and bone fractures, conjunctivitis, dry eye disease, blepharitis, inflammatory bowel disease, increased intravascular coagulation, and decreased glomerular filtration rate. Atopic and urticarial skin disease, acne, and skin aging are linked to air pollution. Air pollution is controllable and, therefore, many of these adverse health effects can be prevented.

Indexed as

Air PollutionBone DiseasesCardiovascular DiseasesDigestive System DiseasesEndocrine System DiseasesHumansImmune System DiseasesNeoplasmsNervous System DiseasesNoncommunicable DiseasesRespiratory Tract DiseasesSkin Diseasesair pollutionnoncommunicable diseasesorgan systems

Identifiers

PMID30419237
PMCPMC6904854
OpenAlexW2899867564

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.