ArticleNature communications2023
Long-term exposure to air pollution and severe COVID-19 in Catalonia: a population-based cohort study.
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- Substantially underestimated global health risks of current ozone pollution.Nature communications · 2025Article
- COVINet: a deep learning-based and interpretable prediction model for the county-wise trajectories of COVID-19 in the United States.Journal of applied statistics · 2025Article
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- The Geographical Conditioning of Regional Differentiation Characterising the COVID-19 Pandemic in European Countries.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Air Pollution in Relation to COVID-19 Morbidity and Mortality: A Large Population-Based Cohort Study in Catalonia, Spain (COVAIR-CAT).Research report (Health Effects Institute) · 2024Article
- Environmental and geographical factors influencing the spread of SARS-CoV-2 over 2 years: a fine-scale spatiotemporal analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Air pollution deaths attributable to fossil fuels: observational and modelling study.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2023Observational
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Abstract
The association between long-term exposure to ambient air pollutants and severe COVID-19 is uncertain. We followed 4,660,502 adults from the general population in 2020 in Catalonia, Spain. Cox proportional models were fit to evaluate the association between annual averages of PM
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