ArticleDiabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy2019
Ambient air pollution exposure and obesity-related traits in Korean adults.
Article in Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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.
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.
Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Long-term Air Pollution and Overall and Regional Body Composition in Older Adults With Overweight or Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome.Diabetes care · 2026Article
- Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Metabolic Syndrome and Its Components.Journal of obesity & metabolic syndrome · 2025Review
- Association between Long-Term Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Cardio-Metabolic Phenotypes: An MRI Data-Based Analysis.Environmental science & technology · 2024Article
- Examining the Link between Air Quality (PM, SOJournal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Municipal Residence Level of Long-Term PMInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeAlthough some studies have tried to determine the impact of long-term air pollution exposure on obesity, they have mainly focused on body mass index (BMI) and the results are inconsistent. Therefore, we investigated the association of annual ambient air pollution exposure with various obesity traits, including computed tomography-measured abdominal fatness, in a large Korean adult population. PATIENTS AND
methodsA total of 5,114 participants who underwent routine health check-ups at Seoul National University Hospital were included in the analysis. We calculated the annual average concentrations of ambient air pollutants, such as particulate matter ≤10 μm in diameter (PM
resultsThe mean age of the population was 53.5 and 70.9% were men. The mean annual concentrations of PM
conclusionAnnual exposure to ambient air pollution is not associated with any obesity-related traits in Korean adults.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
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.