Barely Significant

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Discussion In this study of Medicare beneficiaries residing in low PM2.5-exposed zip codes, we observed a borderline significant association between annual average PM2.5 and all-cause mortality among non-Native American beneficiaries after adjustment for geographic context, socioeconomic position, and baseline morbidity.
This effect ought to be interpreted cautiously since it was only marginally statistically significant in our cohort (confidence interval crosses zero); further research is warranted given mixed but limited findings from other healthcare studies [ 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 ].