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ArticleBMJ open2021

Association of long-term exposure to PM

Jiali Song, Yan Gao, Shuang Hu, Emanuela Medda, Guigang Tang, Di Zhang, Wenbo Zhang, Xi Li, Jing Li, Matteo Renzi and 2 more

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Article in BMJ open, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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

  1. Associations of exposure to PMBMC public health · 2025
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  5. 2024 Thai guidelines on the treatment of hypertension.Asian biomedicine : research, reviews and news · 2025
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  7. Differing associations of PMScientific reports · 2024
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  11. A Review of theInternational journal of genomics · 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

12 authors.

Jiali SongNational Clinical Research Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, NHC Key Laboratory of Clinical Research for Cardiovascular Medications, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Beijing, China.
Yan GaoNational Clinical Research Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, NHC Key Laboratory of Clinical Research for Cardiovascular Medications, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Beijing, China.
Shuang HuNational Clinical Research Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, NHC Key Laboratory of Clinical Research for Cardiovascular Medications, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Beijing, China.
Emanuela MeddaReference Centre for Behavioural Sciences and Mental Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Guigang TangChina National Environmental Monitoring Centre, State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Quality Control in Environmental Monitoring, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China, Beijing, China.
Di ZhangChina National Environmental Monitoring Centre, State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Quality Control in Environmental Monitoring, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China, Beijing, China.
Wenbo ZhangNational Clinical Research Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, NHC Key Laboratory of Clinical Research for Cardiovascular Medications, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Beijing, China.
Xi LiNational Clinical Research Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, NHC Key Laboratory of Clinical Research for Cardiovascular Medications, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0003-2249-688X
Jing LiNational Clinical Research Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, NHC Key Laboratory of Clinical Research for Cardiovascular Medications, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8840-8638
Matteo RenziDepartment of Epidemiology, Lazio Regional Health Service, Rome, Italy.
Maria Antonietta StaziReference Centre for Behavioural Sciences and Mental Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Xin ZhengNational Clinical Research Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, NHC Key Laboratory of Clinical Research for Cardiovascular Medications, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Beijing, China xin.zheng@fwoxford.org.ORCID 0000-0001-5285-4989

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveEvidence of the effects of long-term fine particulate matter (PM

methodsWe analysed cross-sectional data from 883 827 participants aged 35-75 years in the China Patient-Centred Evaluative Assessment of Cardiac Events Million Persons Project. Data from the monitoring station were used to estimate the 1-year average concentration of PM

resultsThe 1-year PM

conclusionsLong-term exposure to PM

Indexed as

Air PollutantsAir PollutionBlood PressureHypertensionAdultAgedChinaCross-Sectional StudiesEnvironmental ExposureHumansMaleMiddle AgedParticulate MatterPrevalenceAir PollutantsParticulate Matterepidemiologyhypertensionpublic health

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PMID34887274
PMCPMC8663071

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