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ReviewHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Clearing the Air: Understanding the Impact of Wildfire Smoke on Asthma and COPD.

May-Lin Wilgus, Maryum Merchant

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Review in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed
10.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

20 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Respiratory Emergencies in Disasters: A Narrative Review.Thoracic research and practice · 2026
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  5. Ovarian hormone deficiency enhances wood smoke-induced immune dysfunction via transcriptomic and metabolic alterations.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2026
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  6. Prenatal exposure to wildfire-related PMEnvironment international · 2026
    Article
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  11. Review
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  13. Respiratory Exacerbations Increase with Chronic PMmedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025
    Article
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  15. Review
  16. Long-term exposure to smoke PMEnvironment international · 2025
    Article
  17. Defining VOC signatures of airway epithelial cells with PM2.5 exposure.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2025
    Article
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

May-Lin WilgusDepartment of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1405, USA.
Maryum MerchantDepartment of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1405, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6349-236X
University of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Wildfires are a global natural phenomenon. In North America, wildfires have not only become more frequent, but also more severe and longer in duration, a trend ascribed to climate change combined with large fuel stores left from modern fire suppression. The intensification of wildfire activity has significant implications for planetary health and public health, as exposure to fine particulate matter (PM

Indexed as

asthmachronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)climate changeparticulate matterplanetary healthpollutionrespiratorysmokewildfire

Identifiers

PMID38338192
PMCPMC10855577
OpenAlexW4391229864

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Registered trials

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