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ArticleJournal of King Saud University. Science2021

Effect of environmental pollution PM2.5, carbon monoxide, and ozone on the incidence and mortality due to SARS-CoV-2 infection in London, United Kingdom.

Sultan Ayoub Meo, Abdulelah Adnan Abukhalaf, Waqas Sami, Thanh D Hoang

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Article in Journal of King Saud University. Science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  19. Effect of environmental pollutants PM2.5, CO, OJournal of King Saud University. Science · 2022
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  20. Effect of Green Space Environment on Air Pollutants PM2.5, PM10, CO, OInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sultan Ayoub MeoDepartment of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Abdulelah Adnan AbukhalafDepartment of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Waqas SamiDepartment of Public Health, University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
Thanh D HoangWalter Reed National Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesCOVID-19 pandemic raised several queries on the relationship between the environment pollution and occurrence of new cases and deaths. This study aims to explore the effect of environmental pollution, particulate matter (PM 2.5 μm), carbon monoxide (CO) and Ozone (O

methodsFor this study, we selected London, one of the highly populated capitals, and markedly affected due to COVID-19 pandemic. The data on the SARS-CoV-2 daily new cases and deaths were recorded from UK-gov Web "Coronavirus COVId-19 in the UK, 2020". The daily environmental pollutants PM 2.5 μm, CO and O

resultsThe SARS-CoV-2 cases and deaths were positively related with environmental pollutants, PM2.5, O

conclusionsEnvironmental pollutants, PM2.5, CO and O

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COVID 19Environmental pollutionLondonMortalityPrevalence

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PMID33867776
PMCPMC8043584

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