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Association between air pollution and COVID-19 mortality and morbidity by Karolina Semczuk-Kaczmarek; Anna Rys-Czaporowska; Janusz Sierdzinski; Lukasz Dominik Kaczmarek; Filip Marcin Szymanski; Anna Edyta Platek is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting the world unevenly. One of the highest numbers of cases were recorded in the most polluted regions worldwide. The risk factors for severe COVID-19 include diabetes, cardiovascular, and respiratory diseases. It has been known that the same disease might be worsened by chronic exposure to air pollution. The study aimed to determine whether long-term average exposure to air pollution is associated with an increased risk of COVID-19 cases and deaths in Poland. The cumulative number of COVID-19 cases and deaths for each voivodeship (the main administrative level of jurisdictions) in Poland were collected from March 4, 2020, to May 15, 2020. Based on the official data published by Chief Inspectorate of Environmental Protection voivodeship-level long-term exposure to main air pollution: PM, PM, NO, SO, O (averaged from 2013 to 2018) was established. There were statistically significant correlation between COVID-19 cases (per 100,000 population) and annual average concentration of PM (R = 0.367, p = 0.016), PM (R = 0.415, p = 0.009), SO (R = 0.489, p = 0.003), and O (R = 0.537, p = 0.0018). Moreover, COVID-19 deaths (per 100,000 populati
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- Author
- Karolina Semczuk-Kaczmarek; Anna Rys-Czaporowska; Janusz Sierdzinski; Lukasz Dominik Kaczmarek; Filip Marcin Szymanski; Anna Edyta Platek
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)