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ReviewEnvironmental monitoring and assessment2025

Climate change and environmental radioactivity: a review of studies on climate conditions in variation on indoor radon concentrations.

Phoka C Rathebe, Khathutshelo Vincent Mphaga, Daniel M Masekameni

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Review in Environmental monitoring and assessment, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Phoka C RathebeDepartment of Environmental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Doornfontein Campus, University of Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Johannesburg, 2006, South Africa. prathebe@uj.ac.za.
Khathutshelo Vincent MphagaDepartment of Environmental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Doornfontein Campus, University of Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Johannesburg, 2006, South Africa.
Daniel M MasekameniDevelopmental Studies, School of Social Sciences, University of South Africa, Pretoria, 0003, South Africa.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Climate change is increasingly recognized as a critical factor influencing various environmental and public health issues. This paper discusses the link between climate change parameters and elevated indoor radon levels, aiming to highlight the necessity for urgent public health intervention. By examining temperature fluctuations, precipitation patterns, extreme weather events, and geological changes, the paper elucidates how these factors contribute to the variability of indoor radon concentrations. A review of 31 indoor radon studies from different countries revealed substantial variation in indoor radon concentrations. The weighted mean indoor radon concentration was 178 Bq/m

Indexed as

Air Pollutants, RadioactiveAir Pollution, IndoorAir Pollution, RadioactiveClimate ChangeRadiation MonitoringRadonHumansAir Pollutants, RadioactiveRadonBuildingsClimate changePublic healthRadonTemperatures

Identifiers

PMID40113619
PMCPMC11926057

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