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SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020

Occupational Lead Exposure and Brain Tumors: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Joonho Ahn, Mi Yeon Park, Mo-Yeol Kang, In-Soo Shin, Sungjae An, Hyoung-Ryoul Kim

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In one paragraph

Synthesis in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  7. Environmental Hazards and Glial Brain Tumors: Association or Causation?International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
    Review
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  10. SEOM-GEINO clinical guidelines for high-grade gliomas of adulthood (2022).Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2023
    Article
  11. Review
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  14. MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF LEAD NEUROTOXICITY.Advances in neurotoxicology · 2021
    Article
  15. Lead Toxicity and Pollution in Poland.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
    Review
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

6 authors.

Joonho AhnDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Korea.
Mi Yeon ParkDepartment of Radiology, University of Ulsan, College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 05505, Korea.
Mo-Yeol KangDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Korea.
In-Soo ShinGraduate School of Education, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, Korea.
Sungjae AnDepartment of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University, Bundang Hospital, Seongnam 13620, Korea.
Hyoung-Ryoul KimDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Korea.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Brain NeoplasmsOccupational ExposureAustraliaHumansLeadOdds RatioLeadbrain tumorcarcinogenlead compoundmeta-analysis

Identifiers

PMID32503353
PMCPMC7312535

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