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ArticleThe European respiratory journal2021

Air pollution and COVID-19: clearing the air and charting a post-pandemic course: a joint workshop report of ERS, ISEE, HEI and WHO.

Zorana J Andersen, Barbara Hoffmann, Lidia Morawska, Martin Adams, Eeva Furman, Arzu Yorgancioglu, Dan Greenbaum, Maria Neira, Bert Brunekreef, Francesco Forastiere and 8 more

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Article in The European respiratory journal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing 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

22 citing papers in PubMed.

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  19. Ecological studies of COVID-19 and air pollution: How useful are they?Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2022
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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

18 authors.

Zorana J AndersenEnvironmental Epidemiology Group, Section of Environmental Health, Dept of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark zorana.andersen@sund.ku.dk.
Barbara HoffmannInstitute for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Centre for Health and Society, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Lidia MorawskaInternational Laboratory for Air Quality and Health (ILAQH), School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
Martin AdamsEuropean Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Eeva FurmanFinnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland.
Arzu YorganciogluCelal Bayar University Medical Faculty, Dept of Pulmonology, Manisa, Turkey.
Dan GreenbaumHealth Effects Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
Maria NeiraWorld Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Bert BrunekreefInstitute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Francesco ForastiereImperial College, London, UK.
Mary B RiceDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2538-391X
François WakenhutClean Air Unit, Directorate-General Environment, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
Erika ColeenBelgian Asthma and Allergy Association, Brussels, Belgium.
Hanna BoogaardHealth Effects Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
Ulrike GehringInstitute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Erik MelénDept of Clinical Sciences and Education, Karolinska Institutet, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-8248-0663
Brian WardEuropean Respiratory Society, Brussels, Belgium.
Sara De MatteisDept of Medical Sciences and Public Health, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Air PollutantsAir PollutionCOVID-19HumansPandemicsParticulate MatterSARS-CoV-2World Health OrganizationAir PollutantsParticulate Matter

Identifiers

PMID34385271
PMCPMC8361303

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