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ArticleSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2025

Running on Fumes: An Analysis of Fine Particulate Matter's Impact on Finish Times in Nine Major US Marathons, 2003-2019.

Elvira S Fleury, Gray S Bittker, Allan C Just, Joseph M Braun

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Article in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 authors.

Elvira S FleuryDepartment of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Box G-S121-3, Providence, RI, 02903, USA. elvira_fleury@g.harvard.edu.ORCID 0009-0009-6147-0683
Gray S BittkerCollege of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
Allan C JustDepartment of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Box G-S121-3, Providence, RI, 02903, USA.
Joseph M BraunDepartment of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Box G-S121-3, Providence, RI, 02903, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundUnder controlled conditions and in some observational studies of runners, airborne fine particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter (PM

objectiveTo assess the association between event-day fine particulate matter air pollution (PM

methodsUsing a spatiotemporal machine-learning model, we estimated event-day racecourse-averaged PM

resultsAnalyzing all finish times, 1 µg/m

conclusionGreater race-day PM

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Air PollutantsAir PollutionAthletic PerformanceMarathon RunningParticulate MatterFemaleHumansMachine LearningMaleTime FactorsUnited StatesAir PollutantsParticulate Matter

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PMID39690352

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