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ArticleToxics2020

Chemical Constituents Involved in E-Cigarette, or Vaping Product Use-Associated Lung Injury (EVALI).

Thivanka Muthumalage, Michelle R Friedman, Matthew D McGraw, Garry Ginsberg, Alan E Friedman, Irfan Rahman

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Article in Toxics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers.

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57citing papers in PubMed
7.1field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

57 citing papers in PubMed, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Thivanka MuthumalageDepartment of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center Box 850, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.
Michelle R FriedmanDepartment of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The College of Brockport, State University of New York, Brockport, NY 14420, USA.
Matthew D McGrawDivision of Pediatric Pulmonology, University of Rochester Medical Center, School of Medicine & Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5646-3560
Garry GinsbergNew York State Department of Health, Center for Environmental Health, Albany, NY 12237, USA.
Alan E FriedmanDepartment of Materials Design and Innovation, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA.
Irfan RahmanDepartment of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center Box 850, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.
University of Rochester Medical Center · USNew York State Department of Health · USSUNY Brockport · USUniversity at Buffalo, State University of New York · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Centers for Disease Control declared e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) a national outbreak due to the high incidence of emergency department admissions and deaths. We have identified chemical constituents in e-cig counterfeit cartridges and compared these to medical-grade and CBD containing cartridges. Apart from vitamin E acetate (VEA) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), other potential toxicants were identified including solvent-derived hydrocarbons, silicon conjugated compounds, various terpenes, pesticides/plasticizers/polycaprolactones, and metals. This study provides additional insights into the chemicals associated with EVALI cartridges and thus may contribute to the underlying disease mechanism of acute lung injury.

Indexed as

cannabise-cigaretteEVALIlipoid-pneumoniaTHCVAPIVaping

Identifiers

PMID32260052
PMCPMC7355865
OpenAlexW3015182621

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