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ArticleJournal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN2020

Mortality in US Hemodialysis Patients Following Exposure to Wildfire Smoke.

Yuzhi Xi, Abhijit V Kshirsagar, Timothy J Wade, David B Richardson, M Alan Brookhart, Lauren Wyatt, Ana G Rappold

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Article in Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Atmospheric stressors and kidney diseases.Nature reviews. Nephrology · 2026
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  10. Extreme Humid-Heat Exposure and Mortality Among Patients Receiving Dialysis.American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation · 2024
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  11. Long-term exposure to wildland fire smoke PMProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  13. Long-term exposure to wildland fire smoke PMmedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024
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  16. Wildfires and the Changing Landscape of Air Pollution-related Health Burden in California.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2023
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  17. Association Between Long-term Ambient PMAmerican journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation · 2022
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  20. Effects of short-term ambient PMEnvironmental health : a global access science source · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Yuzhi XiOak Ridge Institute for Science and Education at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Environmental Public Health Division, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Abhijit V KshirsagarUniversity of North Carolina Kidney Center and Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Timothy J WadeUnited States Environmental Protection Agency, Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
David B RichardsonDepartment of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
M Alan BrookhartDepartment of Population Health Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
Lauren WyattOak Ridge Institute for Science and Education at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Environmental Public Health Division, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Ana G RappoldUnited States Environmental Protection Agency, Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina Rappold.Ana@epa.gov.ORCID 0000-0002-7696-0900

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundWildfires are increasingly a significant source of fine particulate matter (PM

methodsWe conducted a retrospective time-series analysis of the association between daily exposure to wildfire PM

resultsWe found 48,454 deaths matched to the 253 counties. A 10-

conclusionsWildfire smoke exposure was positively associated with all-cause mortality among patients receiving in-center hemodialysis.

Indexed as

WildfiresAdultAgedAged, 80 and overCause of DeathEnvironmental ExposureFemaleHumansKidney Failure, ChronicMaleMiddle AgedParticulate MatterPoisson DistributionRenal DialysisRetrospective StudiesSmokeParticulate MatterSmokeenvironmental exposurehemodialysis patientsmortalitywildfire

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PMID32675302
PMCPMC7460895

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