Investigating the effect of macro-scale estimators on worldwide COVID-19 occurrence and mortality through regression analysis using online country-based data sources.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate macro-scale estimators of the variations in COVID-19 cases and deaths among countries.

Design

Epidemiological study.

Setting

Country-based data from publicly available online databases of international organisations.

Participants

The study involved 170 countries/territories, each of which had complete COVID-19 and tuberculosis data, as well as specific health-related estimators (obesity, hypertension, diabetes and hypercholesterolaemia).

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The worldwide heterogeneity of the total number of COVID-19 cases and deaths per million on 31 December 2020 was analysed by 17 macro-scale estimators around the health-related, socioeconomic, climatic and political factors. In 139 of 170 nations, the best s

SUBMITTER: Erdem S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8844970 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature