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ArticleScience advances2020

Evaluating the impact of long-term exposure to fine particulate matter on mortality among the elderly.

X Wu, D Braun, J Schwartz, M A Kioumourtzoglou, F Dominici

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Article in Science advances, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 96 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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96citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Review
  3. A Drug-Environment Interaction Between PMPharmacoepidemiology and drug safety · 2026
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  4. Seasonal PMToxics · 2026
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  5. PMScience advances · 2026
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  8. Exposure-Response to High PMJournal of the American Heart Association · 2025
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  9. Burden of disease attributable to PMEnvironmental health : a global access science source · 2025
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  11. A case-crossover analysis of short-term PMCommunications medicine · 2025
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  17. Low-Level PMInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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36 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

5 authors.

X WuDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4884-657X
D BraunDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
J SchwartzDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6168-378X
M A KioumourtzoglouDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
F DominiciDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9382-0141

Funding

True Metal fac coreP30ES009089 · NIEHS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI MATTHEW S PERZANOWSKI · 1998 to 2026
$44.7M
Project 3: Cumulative Risk and Geospatial Health Disparities Related to Chemical and Non-Chemical Stressor ExposuresP50MD010428 · NIMHD · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI LADEN, FRANCINE, LEVY, JONATHAN I · 2015 to 2020
$4.0M
Environmental Health Disparities in an Older PopulationR01MD012769 · NIMHD · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI BELL, MICHELLE L · 2017 to 2021
$3.9M
Relationship Between Multiple Environmental Exposures and CVD Incidence and Survival: Vulnerability and SusceptibilityR01ES028033 · NIEHS · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI DOMINICI, FRANCESCA, LADEN, FRANCINE · 2018 to 2022
$3.5M
Integrating Air Pollution Prediction Models: Uncertainty Quantification and Propagation in Health StudiesR01ES030616 · NIEHS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI DOMINICI, FRANCESCA, KIOUMOURTZOGLOU, MARIANTHI-ANNA · 2020 to 2024
$3.1M
Cardiovascular Health and Air Pollution: A National StudyR01ES024332 · NIEHS · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI ZANOBETTI, ANTONELLA · 2015 to 2018
$2.5M
Causal Inference with Interference for Evaluating Air Quality PoliciesR01ES026217 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI ZIGLER, CORWIN MATTHEW · 2016 to 2021
$2.2M
Chronic effects of weather fluctuations: population susceptibility and adaptationR21ES024012 · NIEHS · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI ZANOBETTI, ANTONELLA · 2014 to 2015
$445k
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many studies link long-term fine particle (PM

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PMCPMC7439614

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