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ArticleThe Lancet regional health. Western Pacific2023

Long-term exposure to ambient fine particulate matter chemical composition and in-hospital case fatality among patients with stroke in China.

Miao Cai, Xiaojun Lin, Xiaojie Wang, Shiyu Zhang, Chongjian Wang, Zilong Zhang, Jay Pan, Hualiang Lin

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Article in The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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  15. Effect of PMScientific reports · 2025
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  16. Current trend in air pollution exposure and stroke.Current opinion in neurology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Miao CaiDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, NO. 74, Zhongshan 2nd Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510080, China.
Xiaojun LinHEOA Group, West China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 16, Section 3, Ren Min Nan Road, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041, China.
Xiaojie WangDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, NO. 74, Zhongshan 2nd Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510080, China.
Shiyu ZhangDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, NO. 74, Zhongshan 2nd Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510080, China.
Chongjian WangDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450001, China.
Zilong ZhangDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, NO. 74, Zhongshan 2nd Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510080, China.
Jay PanHEOA Group, West China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 16, Section 3, Ren Min Nan Road, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041, China.
Hualiang LinDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, NO. 74, Zhongshan 2nd Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510080, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: There is little evidence on the association between PM Methods: This study used an inpatient discharge database from 2013 to 2019 in four provinces (Sichuan, Shanxi, Guangxi, and Guangdong) in China. Annual average exposure to PM Findings: Among 3,069,093 hospitalized patients with stroke, each interquartile (IQR) increment in PM Interpretation: Ambient BC, OM, and Funding: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (INV-016826).

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Chemical componentsChinaFine particulate matterIn-hospital mortalityStroke

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PMID36785852
PMCPMC9918804

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