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ArticleEpidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)2019

Causal Inference in Environmental Epidemiology: Old and New Approaches.

Neil Pearce, Jan P Vandenbroucke, Deborah A Lawlor

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Article in Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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41citing papers in PubMed, 7 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.

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

41 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. Meteorological Factors Affecting Infectious Diarrhea in Different Climate Zones of China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  6. Maternal Cigarette Smoking and Cleft Lip and Palate: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association · 2022
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  7. Prenatal exposure to persistent organic pollutants and childhood obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis of human studies.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2022
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  9. Relevance and challenges of exposome studies for environmental health research.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2026
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  13. Wildfire smoke PMScience advances · 2026
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  17. Consequential (and inconsequential) environmental epidemiology.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Neil PearceLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Jan P VandenbrouckeLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Deborah A LawlorLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.

Funding

European Research Council 668954Medical Research Council MC_UU_12013/5Medical Research Council MR/P02386X/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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CausalityEnvironmental HealthEpidemiologic MethodsHumans

Identifiers

PMID30789434
PMCPMC6520236

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