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ArticleResearch report (Health Effects Institute)2019

Assessing Adverse Health Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Low Levels of Ambient Air Pollution: Phase 1.

F Dominici, J Schwartz, Q Di, D Braun, C Choirat, A Zanobetti

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Article in Research report (Health Effects Institute), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Mortality and Morbidity Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Low-Level PMResearch report (Health Effects Institute) · 2021
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  17. Changes in tropospheric air quality related to the protection of stratospheric ozone in a changing climate.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2023
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  18. Particulate Air Pollution Exposure and Stroke among Adults in Israel.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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  19. Air Pollution: Possible Interaction between the Immune and Nervous System?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

F DominiciHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
J SchwartzHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
Q DiHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
D BraunHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
C ChoiratHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
A ZanobettiHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThis report provides a summary of major findings and key conclusions supported by a Health Effects Institute grant aimed at "Assessing Adverse Health Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Low Levels of Ambient Pollution." Our study was designed to advance four critical areas of inquiry and methods development.

methodsFirst, our work focused on predicting short- and long-term exposures to ambient PM

resultsOur HEI-funded work has supported an extensive portfolio of analysis and the development of statistical methods that can be used to robustly understand the health effects of long- and short-term exposure to low levels of ambient air pollution. This report provides a high-level overview of statistical methods, data analysis, and key findings, as grouped into the following four areas: (1) Exposure assessment and data access; (2) Epidemiological studies of ambient exposures to air pollution at low levels; (3) Methodological contributions in causal inference; and (4) Open science research data platform.

conclusionOur body of work, advanced by HEI, lends extensive evidence that short- and long-term exposure to PM

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PMID31909579
PMCPMC7300216

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