ArticleEnvironment international2021
Ambient fine particulate matter air pollution and the risk of hospitalization among COVID-19 positive individuals: Cohort study.
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59 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Shared genes and relevant potential molecular linkages between COVID-19 and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH).Journal of thrombosis and thrombolysis · 2025Article
- Assessing the risks of short-term exposure to ambient air pollutants on COVID-19 hospitalizations in Tehran, Iran: a time-stratified case-crossover approach.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- Ambient air pollution exposure and COVID-19 related hospitalizations in Santiago, Chile.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Socioexposomics of COVID-19 across New Jersey: a comparison of geostatistical and machine learning approaches.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2024Article
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- Impact of short-term ambient air pollution exposure on the risk of severe COVID-19.Journal of environmental sciences (China) · 2024Article
- Long-Term Exposure to AIR Pollution and COVID-19 Mortality and Morbidity in DENmark: Who Is Most Susceptible? (AIRCODEN).Research report (Health Effects Institute) · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundEcologic analyses suggest that living in areas with higher levels of ambient fine particulate matter air pollution (PM
methodsWe leveraged the breadth and depth of the US Department of Veterans Affairs national healthcare databases and built a national cohort of 169,102 COVID-19 positive United States Veterans, enrolled between March 2, 2020 and January 31, 2021, and followed them through February 15, 2021. Annual average 2018 PM
resultsThere were 25,422 (15.0%) hospitalizations; 5,448 (11.9%), 5,056 (13.0%), 7,159 (16.1%), and 7,759 (19.4%) were in the lowest to highest PM
conclusionsExposure to higher levels of PM
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