Phthalates Should Be Regulated as a Class to Protect the Brains of Our Children.

Linda S Birnbaum, Carl-Gustaf Bornehag

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Article in American journal of public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

A Hazard-Based Framework for Identifying Safer Alternatives to Classes of Chemicals: A Case Study on Phthalates in Consumer Products.Environmental health perspectives · 2024
Article
Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals and Persistent Organic Pollutants in Infant Formulas and Baby Food: Legislation and Risk Assessments.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
Review
Perinatal and postnatal exposure to phthalates and early neurodevelopment at 6 months in healthy infants born at term.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Comment on
Neurotoxicity of Ortho-Phthalates: Recommendations for Critical Policy Reforms to Protect Brain Development in Children.2021

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Linda S BirnbaumLinda S. Birnbaum is a scientist emeritus and the former director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC; she is a Scholar in Residence in the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Chapel Hill, NC. Carl-Gustaf Bornehag is with Department of Health Sciences, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden, and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.

Carl-Gustaf BornehagLinda S. Birnbaum is a scientist emeritus and the former director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC; she is a Scholar in Residence in the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Chapel Hill, NC. Carl-Gustaf Bornehag is with Department of Health Sciences, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden, and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Phthalic AcidsBrainChildHumansPolicyPhthalic Acids

Identifiers

PMID33689442

DOI10.2105/AJPH.2021.306193

PMCPMC7958052

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