The relationship between chronic air pollution exposure, neighborhood environmental vulnerability, and adverse COVID-19 morbidities among hospitalized New York City residents.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Communities disproportionately burdened by adverse neighborhood-level social and structural factors may experience greater vulnerability to environmental exposures, contributing to health inequities, including adverse COVID-19. We assessed the effects of chronic air pollution on COVID-19 morbidities in NYC and examined whether these effects varied by neighborhood-level vulnerability.

Methods

We used NYC COVID-19 hospitalization records (3/1/2020-2/28/2021) and conducted analyses in the full sample and within hospital catchment. Chronic air pollution (particulate matter (PM_2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), black carbon (BC), ozone (O₃)) was assigned using residential ZIP Code (NYC Community Air Survey; 2009-2019). Modified Poisson reg

SUBMITTER: Kannoth S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12476271 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature