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Observational studyChest2019

Impact of Long-Term Exposures to Ambient PM

Jongeun Rhee, Francesca Dominici, Antonella Zanobetti, Joel Schwartz, Yun Wang, Qian Di, John Balmes, David C Christiani

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In one paragraph

Observational study in Chest, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
37citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 78 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The role of air pollution (PM and NOEnvironmental research · 2020
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  2. Article
  3. A Drug-Environment Interaction Between PMPharmacoepidemiology and drug safety · 2026
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  4. Review
  5. Exposure-Response to High PMJournal of the American Heart Association · 2025
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  16. COPD in People with HIV: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Management, and Prevention Strategies.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2023
    Review
  17. Association Between Exposure to Ozone (OJournal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2023
    Article
  18. Observational
  19. Lockdown Amid COVID-19 Ascendancy over Ambient Particulate Matter Pollution Anomaly.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
    Review
  20. Article
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

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jongeun RheeHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA.
Francesca DominiciHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA.
Antonella ZanobettiHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA.
Joel SchwartzHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA.
Yun WangHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA.
Qian DiHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA.
John BalmesDepartment of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
David C ChristianiHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA. Electronic address: dchris@hsph.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · USUniversity of California, Berkeley · US

Funding

Translational Research Support CoreP30ES000002 · NIEHS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI JAIME ELIZABETH HART · 1985 to 2026
$44.6M
MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ARDSR01HL060710 · NHLBI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI CHRISTIANI, DAVID C · 2000 to 2015
$8.4M
Cardiovascular Health and Air Pollution: A National StudyR01ES024332 · NIEHS · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI ZANOBETTI, ANTONELLA · 2015 to 2018
$2.5M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL060710NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES000002NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES024332
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundChronic exposures to particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter < 2.5 μm (PM

methodsThis observational study was conducted to estimate air pollution exposures at the ZIP code level and hospital admissions with ARDS among US Medicare beneficiaries aged ≥ 65 years from 2000 to 2012. A two-pollutant generalized linear mixed model, adjusting for sex, age, race, median household income, smoking, and weather, was applied.

resultsThere were a total of 1,164,784 hospital admissions with ARDS in the cohort. Increases of 1 µg/m

conclusionsLong-term exposures to PM

Indexed as

AgedAir PollutantsEnvironmental ExposureFemaleHospitalizationHumansMaleMedicareOzoneParticulate MatterRespiratory Distress SyndromeRisk FactorsUnited StatesAir PollutantsOzoneParticulate Matterair pollutionARDSolder adultsozonePM(2.5)

Identifiers

PMID30926395
PMCPMC6607425
OpenAlexW2924028849

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