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ArticleBritish journal of cancer2023

Long-term air pollution exposure and malignant intracranial tumours of the central nervous system: a pooled analysis of six European cohorts.

Ulla Arthur Hvidtfeldt, Jie Chen, Sophia Rodopoulou, Maciej Strak, Kees de Hoogh, Zorana J Andersen, Tom Bellander, Jørgen Brandt, Daniela Fecht, Francesco Forastiere and 21 more

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Article in British journal of cancer, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Impact of Pollution on Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis with Focus on Air Pollution.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

31 authors at 15 institutions in 9 countries.

Ulla Arthur HvidtfeldtDanish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark. ullah@cancer.dk.ORCID 0000-0002-0335-4838
Jie ChenInstitute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-9644-8026
Sophia RodopoulouDepartment of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Maciej StrakInstitute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Kees de HooghSwiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.
Zorana J AndersenDepartment of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Tom BellanderInstitute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Jørgen BrandtDepartment of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark.
Daniela FechtMRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Francesco ForastiereDepartment of Epidemiology, Lazio Region Health Service/ASL Roma 1, Rome, Italy.
John GulliverMRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Ole HertelDepartments of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark.
Barbara HoffmannInstitute for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Centre for Health and Society, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Klea KatsouyanniDepartment of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Matthias KetzelDepartment of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark.
Karin LeanderInstitute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Patrik K E MagnussonDepartment of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Gabriele NagelInstitute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6185-8535
Göran PershagenInstitute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Debora RizzutoDepartment of Neurobiology, Care Sciences, and Society, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Evangelia SamoliDepartment of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Rina SoDepartment of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Massimo StafoggiaInstitute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Anne TjønnelandDanish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Gudrun WeinmayrInstitute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany.
Kathrin WolfInstitute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany.
Jiawei ZhangDepartment of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Emanuel ZittAgency for Preventive and Social Medicine (aks), Bregenz, Austria.
Bert BrunekreefInstitute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Gerard HoekInstitute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Ole Raaschou-NielsenDanish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Karolinska Institutet · SEAarhus University · DKUniversity of Copenhagen · DKUtrecht University · NLNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRUniversität Ulm · DEASL Roma · ITDanish Cancer Society · DKHeinrich Heine University Düsseldorf · DEHelmholtz Zentrum München · DELandeskrankenhaus Feldkirch · ATMRC Centre for Environment and HealthStockholm University · SESwiss Tropical and Public Health Institute · CHUniversity of Leicester · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/S019669/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundRisk factors for malignant tumours of the central nervous system (CNS) are largely unknown.

methodsWe pooled six European cohorts (N = 302,493) and assessed the association between residential exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO

resultsDuring 5,497,514 person-years of follow-up (average 18.2 years), we observed 623 malignant CNS tumours. The results of the fully adjusted linear analyses showed a hazard ratio (95% confidence interval) of 1.07 (0.95, 1.21) per 10 μg/m³ NO

conclusionsWe observed indications of an association between exposure to NO

Indexed as

Air PollutantsAir PollutionBrain NeoplasmsOzoneEnvironmental ExposureHumansNitrogen DioxideParticulate MatterAir PollutantsNitrogen DioxideOzoneParticulate Matter

Identifiers

PMID37420001
PMCPMC10421949
OpenAlexW4383551591

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