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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2021

Urban heat: an increasing threat to global health.

Shilu Tong, Jason Prior, Glenn McGregor, Xiaoming Shi, Patrick Kinney

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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27citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  5. Urban heat above and below ground: towards improved understanding, modelling, mitigation and adaptation.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2025
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  8. Urban Microclimates and Their Relationship with Social Isolation: A Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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  10. Examining the Association between Heat Exposure and Crime in Cities across the United States: A Scoping Review.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2025
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  12. Parking and Public Health.Current environmental health reports · 2024
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  16. China's public health initiatives for climate change adaptation.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2023
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  18. Trees, Climate Change, and Health: An Urban Planning, Greening and Implementation Perspective.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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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

5 authors.

Shilu TongShanghai Children's Medical Centre, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Jason PriorInstitute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
Glenn McGregorDepartment of Geography, Durham University, Durham, UK.
Xiaoming ShiNational Institute of Environmental Health, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
Patrick KinneyDepartment of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Heat Stress DisordersUrban PopulationCitiesClimate ChangeEnvironmental ExposureGlobal HealthHot TemperatureHumans

Identifiers

PMID34697023
PMCPMC8543181

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