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ArticleJournal of environment and health sciences2019

Burn Pits Exposure and Chronic Respiratory Illnesses among Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans.

Steven S Coughlin, Anthony Szema

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Article in Journal of environment and health sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Environmental Hazards and Glial Brain Tumors: Association or Causation?International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
    Review
  2. Frontiers in public health · 2025
    Article
  3. A Clinician's Guide to Occupational Exposures in the Military.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2022
    Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Steven S CoughlinDepartment of Population Health Sciences, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA.
Anthony SzemaOccupational Medicine, Epidemiology, and Prevention, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, NY.

Funding

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF IDIOPATHIC DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHYR29HL044904 · NHLBI · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI COUGHLIN, STEVEN S · 1990 to 1994
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NHLBI NIH HHS R29 HL044904
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID31404450
PMCPMC6688502

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