Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39957988›Full record

ArticleFrontiers in public health2025

Short-term effects of air pollution on the infectious disease spectrum in Shanghai, China: a time-series analysis from 2013 to 2019.

Yihan Lin, Hao Meng, Yong He, Wenzhuo Liang, Yiran Niu, Zhenliang Liu, Ziying Wang, Yangyang Tian, Shiyang Chang

Abstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

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

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
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.

  1. Article
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

9 authors.

Yihan Lin *Department of Histology and Embryology, College of Basic Medical, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China.
Hao Meng *Department of Pathogenic Biology, College of Basic Medicine, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China.
Yong HeDepartment of Pathogenic Biology, College of Basic Medicine, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China.
Wenzhuo LiangDepartment of Histology and Embryology, College of Basic Medical, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China.
Yiran NiuDepartment of Histology and Embryology, College of Basic Medical, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China.
Zhenliang LiuDepartment of Histology and Embryology, College of Basic Medical, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China.
Ziying WangDepartment of Pathogenic Biology, College of Basic Medicine, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China.
Yangyang TianDepartment of Histology and Embryology, College of Basic Medical, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China.
Shiyang ChangDepartment of Histology and Embryology, College of Basic Medical, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Epidemiological evidence on the effects of air pollution on infectious diseases remains inconsistent, highlighting the need for further research and analysis. We aimed to investigate the relationship between exposure to fine particulate matter (PM Methods: A double-pollutant model was used for each air pollutant, utilizing time-series analysis to separately apply single and distributed lag models (DLMs) to assess the exposure-lag-response relationship for 43 national notifiable infectious diseases (NNIDs) from 2013 to 2019. The model was adjusted for seasonality, long-term trends, mean temperature, relative humidity, and other air pollutants. Analysis was further conducted for seven NNID categories (vaccine-preventable; bacterial; gastrointestinal and enterovirus; sexually transmitted and bloodborne; vector-borne; zoonotic; and quarantinable diseases) as well as specific diseases. Results: The study included 661,267 NNID cases and found that PM Conclusion: These findings suggest a potential link between ambient air pollution exposure and the risk of infectious diseases, highlighting the urgent need for a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between air pollution and notifiable infectious diseases, as well as an in-depth evaluation of disparities across the disease spectrum.

Indexed as

Air PollutantsAir PollutionCommunicable DiseasesEnvironmental ExposureChinaHumansOzoneParticulate MatterAir PollutantsOzoneParticulate Matterair pollutiondistributed lag modelfine particulate matterinfectious diseasesozonetime-series study

Identifiers

PMID39957988
PMCPMC11825447

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.