ArticleBMC public health2021
Association between air pollution in Lima and the high incidence of COVID-19: findings from a post hoc analysis.
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- The role of air pollution (PM and NOEnvironmental research · 2020Pooled it
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- Lockdown Amid COVID-19 Ascendancy over Ambient Particulate Matter Pollution Anomaly.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Intrauterine and Extrauterine Environmental PMToxics · 2022Article
- Examining the status of forest fire emission in 2020 and its connection to COVID-19 incidents in West Coast regions of the United States.Environmental research · 2022Article
- SARS-CoV-2 and other airborne respiratory viruses in outdoor aerosols in three Swiss cities before and during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.Environment international · 2022Article
- The effect of known and unknown confounders on the relationship between air pollution and Covid-19 mortality in Italy: A sensitivity analysis of an ecological study based on the E-value.Environmental research · 2022Article
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- Is Environmental Pollution Associated with an Increased Number of COVID-19 Cases in Europe?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Exploring the effects of PMEnvironmental research · 2022Article
- Positive association between outdoor air pollution and the incidence and severity of COVID-19. A review of the recent scientific evidences.Environmental research · 2022Review
- Assessing a fossil fuels externality with a new neural networks and image optimisation algorithm: the case of atmospheric pollutants as confounders to COVID-19 lethality.Epidemiology and infection · 2021Article
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backgroundCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) originated in the People's Republic of China in December 2019. Thereafter, a global logarithmic expansion of cases occurred. Some countries have a higher rate of infections despite the early implementation of quarantine. Air pollution might be related to high susceptibility to the virus and associated case fatality rates (deaths/cases*100). Lima, Peru, has the second highest incidence of COVID-19 in Latin America and also has one the highest levels of air pollution in the region.
methodsThis study investigated the association of levels of PM
resultsThere were 128,700 cases in Lima and 2382 deaths due to COVID-19. The case fatality rate was 1.93%. Previous exposure to PM
conclusionsAfter adjusting for age, sex and number of food markets, the higher rates of COVID-19 in Metropolitan Lima are attributable to the increased PM
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