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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2024

Exposure-response associations between chronic exposure to fine particulate matter and risks of hospital admission for major cardiovascular diseases: population based cohort study.

Yaguang Wei, Yijing Feng, Mahdieh Danesh Yazdi, Kanhua Yin, Edgar Castro, Alexandra Shtein, Xinye Qiu, Adjani A Peralta, Brent A Coull, Francesca Dominici and 1 more

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 48 papers.

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48citing papers in PubMed
17.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

48 citing papers in PubMed, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yaguang WeiDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA weiyg@hsph.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-6796-7510
Yijing FengDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Mahdieh Danesh YazdiDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Kanhua YinDepartment of Surgery, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO, USA.
Edgar CastroDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Alexandra ShteinDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Xinye QiuDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Adjani A PeraltaDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Brent A CoullDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Francesca DominiciDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Joel D SchwartzDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Harvard University · USUniversity of Missouri–Kansas City · US

Funding

Translational Research Support CoreP30ES000002 · NIEHS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI JAIME ELIZABETH HART · 1985 to 2026
$44.6M
Containerizing tasks to ensure robust AI/ML data curation pipelines to estimate environmental disparities in the rural southR01MD016054 · NIMHD · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Michelle L Bell, Nicole Deziel · 2022 to 2026
$4.3M
Environmental Health Disparities in an Older PopulationR01MD012769 · NIMHD · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI BELL, MICHELLE L · 2017 to 2021
$3.9M
NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES000002NIMHD NIH HHS R01 MD012769NIMHD NIH HHS R01 MD016054
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo estimate exposure-response associations between chronic exposure to fine particulate matter (PM

designPopulation based cohort study.

settingContiguous US.

participants59 761 494 Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries aged ≥65 years during 2000-16. Calibrated PM

main outcome measuresRisk of the first hospital admission during follow-up for ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, arrhythmia, valvular heart disease, thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms, or a composite of these CVD subtypes. A causal framework robust against confounding bias and bias arising from errors in exposure measurements was developed for exposure-response estimations.

resultsThree year average PM

conclusionsThe findings of this study suggest that no safe threshold exists for the chronic effect of PM

Indexed as

Air PollutantsAir PollutionAortic Aneurysm, AbdominalCardiomyopathiesCardiovascular DiseasesCerebrovascular DisordersHeart FailureMyocardial IschemiaAgedArrhythmias, CardiacCohort StudiesEnvironmental ExposureHospitalsHumansMedicareParticulate MatterAir PollutantsParticulate Matter

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PMID38383041
PMCPMC10879983
OpenAlexW4392297645

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