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SynthesisAnnual review of medicine2024

Health Effects of Wildfire Smoke Exposure.

Carlos F Gould, Sam Heft-Neal, Mary Johnson, Juan Aguilera, Marshall Burke, Kari Nadeau

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Synthesis in Annual review of medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers.

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62citing papers in PubMed
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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

62 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Burning issues: trends in newspaper coverage of wildfire events and health.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2026
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  13. Fire lines adjacent to aspen are unlikely to hold during extreme burning conditions in southern Rocky Mountain forests.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2026
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  15. Wildfire smoke-related PMEnvironment international · 2026
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  17. Functional Variant Discovery Identifies a Novel Genetic Link between SPRY2, Wood Smoke, and Asthma.American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology · 2026
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  19. Wildfire-Specific PMGeoHealth · 2026
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2 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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.

Carlos F GouldDoerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; email: gould.cf@gmail.com, mburke@stanford.edu.
Sam Heft-NealCenter on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; email: sheftneal@stanford.edu.
Mary JohnsonHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; email: mjohnson@hsph.harvard.edu, knadeau@hsph.harvard.edu.
Juan AguileraCenter for Community Health Impact, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, El Paso, Texas, USA; email: juan.aguilera@uth.tmc.edu.
Marshall BurkeDoerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; email: gould.cf@gmail.com, mburke@stanford.edu.
Kari NadeauHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; email: mjohnson@hsph.harvard.edu, knadeau@hsph.harvard.edu.

Funding

Scientific Human Biomarker Exposure Monitoring Core (HEMC) for the Air pollution disrupts Inflammasome Regulation in HEart And Lung Total Health (AIRHEALTH) StudyP01HL152953 · NHLBI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI NADEAU, KARI C. · 2021 to 2025
$9.8M
NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL152953
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We review current knowledge on the trends and drivers of global wildfire activity, advances in the measurement of wildfire smoke exposure, and evidence on the health effects of this exposure. We describe methodological issues in estimating the causal effects of wildfire smoke exposures on health and quantify their importance, emphasizing the role of nonlinear and lagged effects. We conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of the health effects of wildfire smoke exposure, finding positive impacts on all-cause mortality and respiratory hospitalizations but less consistent evidence on cardiovascular morbidity. We conclude by highlighting priority areas for future research, including leveraging recently developed spatially and temporally resolved wildfire-specific ambient air pollution data to improve estimates of the health effects of wildfire smoke exposure.

Indexed as

Air PollutionWildfiresEnvironmental ExposureHospitalizationHumansSmokeSmokeair pollutionenvironmental healthepidemiologypublic health

Identifiers

PMID37738508
PMCPMC12183787

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