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ArticlePreventive medicine reports2019

Indoor cannabis smoke and children's health.

Alexander Posis, John Bellettiere, Sandy Liles, John Alcaraz, Benjamin Nguyen, Vincent Berardi, Neil E Klepeis, Suzanne C Hughes, Tianying Wu, Melbourne F Hovell

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Article in Preventive medicine reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Tobacco cigarette and cannabis use among new mothers.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2021
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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

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alexander PosisCenter for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Health (C-BEACH), Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA.
John BellettiereCenter for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Health (C-BEACH), Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA.
Sandy LilesCenter for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Health (C-BEACH), Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA.
John AlcarazGraduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA.
Benjamin NguyenCenter for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Health (C-BEACH), Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA.
Vincent BerardiCenter for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Health (C-BEACH), Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA.
Neil E KlepeisCenter for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Health (C-BEACH), Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA.
Suzanne C HughesCenter for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Health (C-BEACH), Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA.
Tianying WuGraduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA.
Melbourne F HovellCenter for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Health (C-BEACH), Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA.
San Diego State University · USUniversity of California, San Diego · US

Funding

UCSD Integrated Cardiovascular Epidemiology FellowshipT32HL079891 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Matthew A Allison · 2007 to 2026
$6.7M
NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL079891
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cannabis use is increasing and cannabis is typically consumed by smoking. This study explored how indoor secondhand cannabis smoke (SCS) was associated with child health. As part of a larger trial, air particle monitors were placed in 298 homes of families with at least one cigarette smoker and one child under 14 years old in San Diego County, California. Assessment included past 7-day indoor cigarette and cannabis use, the youngest child's exposure to cigarette smoke, and 5 smoke-related past-year child health outcomes: emergency department use for coughing/difficulty breathing; physician diagnosis of ear infection, bronchitis/bronchiolitis, asthma, or eczema/atopic dermatitis. An ordinal measure of adverse health outcomes (0, 1, or ≥2) was regressed on reported indoor cannabis smoking-the main measure of exposure (yes/no). Of 221 parents/guardians asked about cannabis use, 192 (86.9%) provided all required data, and 29 (15.1%) reported indoor cannabis smoking; reports were supported by air particle data. Homes without indoor smoking had lower average 7-day particle concentrations (1968 particles/0.01ft

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CannabisChildrenHealth effectsIndoor air qualityMarijuanaSecondhand smoke

Identifiers

PMID30976488
PMCPMC6441784
OpenAlexW2921662508

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