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ReviewRisk management and healthcare policy2021

Environmental Pollution and Peripheral Artery Disease.

Raffaele Serra, Andrea Abramo, Nicola Ielapi, Salvatore Procopio, Pietro Marino

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Review in Risk management and healthcare policy, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. PMEco-Environment & Health · 2026
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  5. Peripheral artery disease In West Africans with diabetes: a risk factor profile analysis.International journal of cardiology. Cardiovascular risk and prevention · 2025
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  10. A hidden problem: peripheral artery disease in women.European heart journal. Quality of care & clinical outcomes · 2023
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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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Raffaele SerraInteruniversity Center of Phlebolymphology (CIFL), International Research and Educational Program in Clinical and Experimental Biotechnology, Department of Surgical and Medical Sciences, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4477-7412
Andrea AbramoInteruniversity Center of Phlebolymphology (CIFL), International Research and Educational Program in Clinical and Experimental Biotechnology, Department of Surgical and Medical Sciences, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
Nicola IelapiInteruniversity Center of Phlebolymphology (CIFL), International Research and Educational Program in Clinical and Experimental Biotechnology, Department of Surgical and Medical Sciences, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
Salvatore ProcopioDepartment of Catanzaro District, Laboratory of Physics, Calabria Regional Agency for Environment Protection, Catanzaro, Italy.
Pietro MarinoDepartment of Social Sciences, Vitambiente, Catanzaro, Italy.
Magna Graecia University · ITAgenzia Regionale per la Protezione Ambientale del Piemonte · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) of the lower limbs represents one of the most important clinical conditions among vascular disease and can negatively impact quality of life of affected patients, representing also an important socioeconomic burden. Several risk factors predispose to PAD and its complications. Nevertheless, the role of pollution in this context has not been fully evaluated and this article explored the most updated information on epidemiology and environmental pollution in order to hypothesize the possible contribution of air pollution in the onset of PAD. Pollution is an important problem for the global community and has harmful effects on human health and cardiovascular system, and, specifically, particulate matter 10 (PM

Indexed as

environmentperipheral artery diseasePM10pollutionrisk factors

Identifiers

PMID34079405
PMCPMC8166356
OpenAlexW3164591511

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