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ArticleEnvironment international2025

Unraveling the impact of prenatal air pollution for neonatal brain maturation.

Jesus Pujol, Gerard Martínez-Vilavella, Laura Gómez-Herrera, Ioar Rivas, Maria Dolors Gómez-Roig, Elisa Llurba, Laura Blanco-Hinojo, Marta Cirach, Cecilia Persavento, Xavier Querol and 7 more

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Article in Environment international, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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

  1. Air Pollution and Brain Tumors in Children. A Systematic Review.Current environmental health reports · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Jesus PujolMRI Research Unit, Department of Radiology, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: 21404jpn@comb.cat.
Gerard Martínez-VilavellaMRI Research Unit, Department of Radiology, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain.
Laura Gómez-HerreraBarcelona Institute for Global Health, ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Spain; Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain.
Ioar RivasBarcelona Institute for Global Health, ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain; Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.
Maria Dolors Gómez-RoigBCNatal, Fetal Medicine Research Center, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, and Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Primary Care Interventions to Prevent Maternal and Child Chronic Diseases of Perinatal and Developmental Origin Network (RICORS), RD21/0012/0003, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain.
Elisa LlurbaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Women and Perinatal Health Research Group, Institut de Recerca (IR SANT PAU), Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain; Spanish Network in Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Developmental Health Research (RICORS-SAMID, RD24/0013/0001) Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Laura Blanco-HinojoMRI Research Unit, Department of Radiology, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain; Barcelona Institute for Global Health, ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain.
Marta CirachBarcelona Institute for Global Health, ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.
Cecilia PersaventoBarcelona Institute for Global Health, ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.
Xavier QuerolInstitute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.
Mireia GascónBarcelona Institute for Global Health, ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain; Unitat de Suport a la Recerca de la Catalunya Central, Fundació Institut Universitari per a la Recerca a l'Atenció Primària de Salut Jordi Gol i Gurina (IDIAPJGol), Manresa, Spain.
Maria ForasterBarcelona Institute for Global Health, ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; PHAGEX Research Group, Blanquerna School of Health Science, Universitat Ramon Llull (URL), Barcelona, Spain.
Juan Domingo GispertBarcelonaβeta Brain Research Center (BBRC), Pasqual Maragall Foundation, Barcelona, Spain.
Carles FalcónBarcelonaβeta Brain Research Center (BBRC), Pasqual Maragall Foundation, Barcelona, Spain; Spanish Consortium for Research on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Spain.
Joan DeusMRI Research Unit, Department of Radiology, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Payam DadvandBarcelona Institute for Global Health, ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.
Jordi SunyerBarcelona Institute for Global Health, ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain; IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early brain development is highly sensitive to environmental influences. While prenatal exposure to airborne particulate matter (PM

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Air PollutantsAir PollutionBrainMaternal ExposureParticulate MatterPrenatal Exposure Delayed EffectsFemaleHumansInfant, NewbornMalePregnancySpainWhite MatterAir PollutantsParticulate MatterBrain developmentMyelinationNeonatesParticulate matter

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PMID40986980
PMCPMC12545730

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