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ArticleNature medicine2024

Disparities in air pollution attributable mortality in the US population by race/ethnicity and sociodemographic factors.

Pascal Geldsetzer, Daniel Fridljand, Mathew V Kiang, Eran Bendavid, Sam Heft-Neal, Marshall Burke, Alexander H Thieme, Tarik Benmarhnia

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Article in Nature medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed.

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  18. Inequality in air pollution-attributable mortality by income level between and within countries.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  19. Particles Matter: Air Pollution and Disparities in Sarcoidosis.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Pascal Geldsetzer *Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. pgeldsetzer@stanford.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8878-5505
Daniel Fridljand *Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Mathew V KiangDepartment of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9198-150X
Eran BendavidDivision of Primary Care and Population Health, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8364-4711
Sam Heft-NealCenter on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9129-2365
Marshall BurkeCenter on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4288-5858
Alexander H ThiemeStanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR), Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4564-3347
Tarik BenmarhniaScripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

Funding

California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) 21-E0018Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, Inc.) R00DA051534Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, Inc.) R01AI127250Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, Inc.) R01HD104835
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are large differences in premature mortality in the USA by race/ethnicity, education, rurality and social vulnerability index groups. Using existing concentration-response functions, published particulate matter (PM

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