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ReviewEnvironmental health : a global access science source2024

The last decade of air pollution epidemiology and the challenges of quantitative risk assessment.

Francesco Forastiere, Hans Orru, Michal Krzyzanowski, Joseph V Spadaro

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Review in Environmental health : a global access science source, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Dynamic Associations between Ambient PMEnvironment & health (Washington, D.C.) · 2026
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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

4 authors.

Francesco ForastiereNational Research Council, IFT, Palermo, Italy. Fran.forastiere@gmail.com.
Hans OrruUnit of Sustainable Health, Umea University, Umea, Sweden.
Michal KrzyzanowskiEnvironmental Research Group, Imperial College, London, UK.
Joseph V SpadaroSpadaro Environmental Research Consultants (SERC), Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epidemiologic research and quantitative risk assessment play a crucial role in transferring fundamental scientific knowledge to policymakers so they can take action to reduce the burden of ambient air pollution. This commentary addresses several challenges in quantitative risk assessment of air pollution that require close attention. The background to this discussion provides a summary of and conclusions from the epidemiological evidence on ambient air pollution and health outcomes accumulated since the 1990s. We focus on identifying relevant exposure-health outcome pairs, the associated concentration-response functions to be applied in a risk assessment, and several caveats in their application. We propose a structured and comprehensive framework for assessing the evidence levels associated with each exposure-health outcome pair within a health impact assessment context. Specific issues regarding the use of global or regional concentration-response functions, their shape, and the range of applicability are discussed.

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Air PollutantsAir PollutionEnvironmental ExposureHumansRisk AssessmentAir PollutantsAir pollutionChemicalsConcentration-response functionHealth Impact AssessmentMorbidityMortalityNitrogen DioxideParticlesPM2.5Risk assessment

Identifiers

PMID39543692
PMCPMC11566658

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