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ArticleCardiovascular research2020

Air pollution health impacts: the knowns and unknowns for reliable global burden calculations.

Perry Hystad, Salim Yusuf, Michael Brauer

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Article in Cardiovascular research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing 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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Strategy for coordinating near-term PMProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Perry HystadCollege of Public Health and Human Sciences, 60 SW 26th St., Oregon State University, Corvallis, 97331 OR, USA.
Salim YusufPopulation Health Research Institute, 237 Barton Street East, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, L8L 2X2 ON, Canada.
Michael BrauerSchool of Population and Public Health, 2206 E Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z3 BC, Canada.

Funding

PURE-AIR: A Global Assessment of Air Pollution and Cardiopulmonary DiseaseDP5OD019850 · OD · OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY · PI HYSTAD, PERRY W · 2014 to 2018
$1.7M
CIHR 136893NIH HHS DP5 OD019850
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Air PollutionLife Expectancy

Identifiers

PMID32267925
PMCPMC7449549

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