Long-term exposure to air-pollution and COVID-19 mortality in England: a hierarchical spatial analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent studies suggested a link between long-term exposure to air-pollution and COVID-19 mortality. However, due to their ecological design, based on large spatial units, they neglect the strong localised air-pollution patterns, and potentially lead to inadequate confounding adjustment. We investigated the effect of long-term exposure to NO2 and PM2.5 on COVID-19 deaths up to June 30, 2020 in England using high geographical resolution.

Methods

We included 38 573 COVID-19 deaths up to June 30, 2020 at the Lower Layer Super Output Area level in England (n=32 844 small areas). We retrieved averaged NO2 and PM2.5 concentration during 2014-2018 from the Pollution Climate Mapping. We used Bayesian hierarchical models to quantify the effect of air-pollution while adjusti

SUBMITTER: Konstantinoudis G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7430619 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature