Bias in the estimated association between all-cause mortality and long-term exposure to a specific chemical component of fine particulate matter: The example of black carbon
In meta-analyses on the health impacts of PM<sub>2.5</sub> components, ignoring the differential effects of BC and NBC causes significant biases in estimating associations with all-cause mortality. Our study presents a novel method to adjust for OVB in meta-analyses, and we find that BC more harmful than NBC components of PM<sub>2.5</sub> by using the novel method.
Authors
- Hong Sheng Lu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7267-0765)
- Ning Kang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5377-0039)
- Pengfei Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2914-3729)
- Jianyu Deng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8880-9741)
- Tao Xue (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7045-2307)
- Meng Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1995-853X)
- Mingkun Tong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6814-0390)
- Xueqiu Ni
- Mei Zheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9851-5309)
- Mingjin Tang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8756-8445)
- Tong Fei Zhu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2752-7924)
Institutions
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Peking University (CN)
- National Health and Family Planning Commission (CN)
- Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry (CN)
- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control (CN)
- Ministry of Health (OM)
- University at Buffalo, State University of New York (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
- Published
- 2025-08-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2025.118859
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.20
Funders
- Key Technologies Research and Development Program of Anhui Province
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality
- National Key Research and Development Program of China
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences