Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32928163›Full record

ArticleBMC public health2020

Association between long-term exposure to air pollutants and cardiopulmonary mortality rates in South Korea.

Jeongeun Hwang, Jinhee Kwon, Hahn Yi, Hyun-Jin Bae, Miso Jang, Namkug Kim

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in BMC public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Review
  7. Article
  8. Air Pollution and Cardiac Diseases: A Review of Experimental Studies.Dose-response : a publication of International Hormesis Society
    Review
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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jeongeun HwangDepartment of Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Jinhee KwonDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Asan Medical Institute of Convergence Science and Technology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Hahn YiAsan Institute for Life Sciences, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Hyun-Jin BaeDepartment of Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Miso JangDepartment of Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Namkug KimDepartment of Convergence Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, 88, Olympic-ro 43-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul, 05505, South Korea. namkugkim@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3438-2217
Ulsan College · KRAsan Medical Center · KR

Funding

Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020-0000
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe association between long-term exposure to air pollutants, including nitrogen dioxide (NO

methodsA total of 249 Si-Gun-Gus, unit of administrative districts in South Korea were studied. In each district, the daily concentrations of CO, SO

resultsFor IHD, higher SO

conclusionLong-term exposure to high SO

Indexed as

Air PollutantsAir PollutionOzoneEnvironmental ExposureHumansNitrogen DioxideParticulate MatterRepublic of KoreaSulfur DioxideAir PollutantsNitrogen DioxideOzoneParticulate MatterSulfur DioxideAir pollutionCerebrovascular diseaseChronic lower respiratory diseaseIschemic heart diseaseLong-term exposureMortalityPneumonia

Identifiers

PMID32928163
PMCPMC7491133
OpenAlexW3085335583

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.