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ArticleIndoor air2021

Deposition of E-cigarette aerosol in human airways through passive vaping.

Wei-Chung Su, Su-Wei Wong, Anne Buu

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Article in Indoor air, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Wei-Chung SuDepartment of Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7962-4021
Su-Wei WongDepartment of Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Anne BuuDepartment of Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston · US

Funding

Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental HealthT42OH008421 · OH · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI FELKNOR, SARAH A. · 2005 to 2024
$24.1M
Methodology and measurement for examining short-term and long-term effects of e-cigarette and polysubstance useR01DA049154 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI BUU, YUH-PEY ANNE, LIN, HSIEN-CHANG · 2019 to 2022
$2.6M
Development and Application of a Mobile Apparatus for Ultrafine Particle Inhalation Estimation in Urban CommunitiesR21ES031795 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI HAN, INKYU, SU, WEI-CHUNG · 2020 to 2021
$428k
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA049154NIEHS NIH HHS R21 ES031795NIOSH CDC HHS T42 OH008421
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Secondary exposure to e-cigarette aerosol (passive vaping) will soon become a pressing public health issue in the world. Yet, the current knowledge about respiratory depositions of e-cigarette aerosol through passive vaping in human airways is limited due to critical weaknesses of traditional experimental methods. To fill in this important knowledge gap, this study proposed a special approach involving an upgraded Mobile Aerosol Lung Deposition Apparatus (MALDA) that consists of a set of human airway replicas including a head airway, tracheobronchial airways down to the 11th lung generation, and a representative alveolar section. In addition to the comprehensive coverage of human airways, the MALDA is easily transportable for providing efficient estimations of aerosol respiratory deposition. In this study, the MALDA was first evaluated in the laboratory and then applied to estimate the respiratory deposition associated with passive vaping in an indoor real-life setting. The results showed that the respiratory deposition data aligned closely with the conventional respiratory deposition curves not only in the head-to-TB region but also in the alveolar region. The strengths of MALDA demonstrate great promise for a wide variety of applications in real-life settings that could provide crucial information for future public health and indoor air quality studies.

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AerosolsElectronic Nicotine Delivery SystemsLungVapingAir Pollution, IndoorHumansParticle SizeAerosolsaerosoldeposition fractione-cigarettehuman airwayspassive vapingrespiratory deposition

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PMID33020934
PMCPMC7904647
OpenAlexW3090068878

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