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ArticleEpidemiology and infection2025

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Leonia Hiu Wan Lau, Ngai Sze Wong, Chi Chiu Leung, Chi Kuen Chan, Lai-Bun Tai, Alexis Kai Hon Lau, Changqing Lin, Shui Shan Lee

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Article in Epidemiology and infection, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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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

8 authors.

Leonia Hiu Wan LauStanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0848-1406
Ngai Sze WongStanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3788-8114
Chi Chiu LeungHong Kong Tuberculosis, Chest and Heart Disease Association, Hong Kong, China.
Chi Kuen ChanTuberculosis and Chest Service, Centre for Health Protection, Department of Health, Hong Kong, China.
Lai-Bun TaiTuberculosis and Chest Service, Centre for Health Protection, Department of Health, Hong Kong, China.
Alexis Kai Hon LauDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.
Changqing LinDivision of Environment and Sustainability, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.
Shui Shan LeeStanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1448-765X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hong Kong is an intermediate tuberculosis (TB) endemicity city dominated by reactivation diseases. A cross-sectional study on the clinical and epidemiologic data of newly diagnosed TB cases was conducted in such a setting, to examine the association between ambient PM

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Particulate MatterAdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overAir PollutantsCross-Sectional StudiesEnvironmental ExposureFemaleHong KongHumansMaleMiddle AgedTuberculosisYoung AdultAir PollutantsParticulate Matterambient PM2.5Hong Kongtuberculosistuberculosis reactivation

Identifiers

PMID39743772
PMCPMC11704936

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