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ReviewCurrent environmental health reports2021

Environmental Exposures and Lung Aging: Molecular Mechanisms and Implications for Improving Respiratory Health.

Christina M Eckhardt, Haotian Wu

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Review in Current environmental health reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39citing 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

39 citing papers in PubMed, 69 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christina M EckhardtDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 630 West 168th Street, Presbyterian Hospital Floor 8, Suite 101, New York, NY, 10032, USA. Cme2113@cumc.columbia.edu.
Haotian WuEnvironmental Health Sciences Department, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 630 West 168th Street, Room 16-416, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
Columbia University · US

Funding

Clinical and Translational Science AwardUL1TR001873 · NCATS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI REILLY, MUREDACH P · 2016 to 2025
$99.0M
NRSA Training CoreTL1TR001875 · NCATS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI SPANN, MARISA N, TAYLOR, JACQUELYN Y · 2016 to 2025
$8.9M
NCATS NIH HHS TL1 TR001875NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001873
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewInhaled environmental exposures cause over 12 million deaths per year worldwide. Despite localized efforts to reduce environmental exposures, tobacco smoking and air pollution remain the urgent public health challenges that are contributing to the growing prevalence of respiratory diseases. The purpose of this review is to describe the mechanisms through which inhaled environmental exposures accelerate lung aging and cause overt lung disease. RECENT

findingsEnvironmental exposures related to fossil fuel and tobacco combustion and occupational exposures related to silica and coal mining generate oxidative stress and inflammation in the lungs. Sustained oxidative stress causes DNA damage, epigenetic instability, mitochondrial dysfunction, and cell cycle arrest in key progenitor cells in the lung. As a result, critical repair mechanisms are impaired, leading to premature destruction of the lung parenchyma. Inhaled environmental exposures accelerate lung aging by injuring the lungs and damaging the cells responsible for wound healing. Interventions that minimize exposure to noxious antigens are critical to improve lung health, and novel research is required to expand our knowledge of therapies that may slow or prevent premature lung aging.

Indexed as

Air PollutionOccupational ExposureAgingEnvironmental ExposureHumansLungAir pollutionEnvironmental exposuresLung agingLung diseaseOccupational exposuresSmoking

Identifiers

PMID34735706
PMCPMC8567983
OpenAlexW3210127160

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