ReviewAnnual review of public health2023
A Literature Review of the Effects of Air Pollution on COVID-19 Health Outcomes Worldwide: Statistical Challenges and Data Visualization.
Review in Annual review of public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- REACH-OUT: Race, Ethnicity, and Air Pollution in COVID-19 Hospitalization OUTcomes.Research report (Health Effects Institute) · 2025Article
- Investigation of potential collider bias in estimating the association between long-term exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 mortality.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2025Article
- Independent and combined effects of long-term air pollution exposure and genetic predisposition on COVID-19 severity: A population-based cohort study.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Association of memory function with COVID-19 outcomes in adults aged 50 years and older: analysis of three prospective cohorts.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The association between different timeframes of air pollution exposure and COVID-19 incidence, morbidity and mortality in German counties in 2020.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2024Article
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- Combining aggregate and individual-level data to estimate individual-level associations between air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the United States.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Several peer-reviewed papers and reviews have examined the relationship between exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 spread and severity. However, many of the existing reviews on this topic do not extensively present the statistical challenges associated with this field, do not provide comprehensive guidelines for future researchers, and review only the results of a relatively small number of papers. We reviewed 139 papers, 127 of which reported a statistically significant positive association between air pollution and adverse COVID-19 health outcomes. Here, we summarize the evidence, describe the statistical challenges, and make recommendations for future research. To summarize the 139 papers with data from geographical locations around the world, we also present anopen-source data visualization tool that summarizes these studies and allows the research community to contribute evidence as new research papers are published.
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