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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020

Is Environmental and Occupational Particulate Air Pollution Exposure Related to Type-2 Diabetes and Dementia? A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the UK Biobank.

Eirini Dimakakou, Helinor J Johnston, George Streftaris, John W Cherrie

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Article in International journal of environmental research and 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, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% 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, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Eirini DimakakouSchool of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biophysics and Bioengineering, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh EH14-4AS, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1806-6086
Helinor J JohnstonSchool of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biophysics and Bioengineering, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh EH14-4AS, UK.
George StreftarisMaxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14-4AS, UK.
John W CherrieSchool of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biophysics and Bioengineering, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh EH14-4AS, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8901-6890
Heriot-Watt University · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human exposure to particulate air pollution (e.g., PM

Indexed as

Biological Specimen BanksDementiaDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2Occupational ExposureAir PollutantsAir PollutionCross-Sectional StudiesDustEnvironmental ExposureFemaleHumansMaleMineralsParticulate MatterUnited KingdomAir PollutantsDustMineralsParticulate MatterACE JEMair pollutiondementiaenvironmental exposureepidemiological analysisepidemiologyoccupational exposureparticulate mattertype 2 diabetesUK Biobank

Identifiers

PMID33371391
PMCPMC7767456
OpenAlexW3116477248

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Registered trials

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