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Associations of acute exposure to airborne pollutants with COVID-19 infection: evidence from China

The outbreak of COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, has spread across many countries globally. Greatly, there are limited studies concerned with the effect of airborne pollutants on COVID-19 infection, while exposure to airborne pollutants may harm human health. This paper aimed to examine the associati...

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Autores principales: Lu, Bingqing, Wu, Na, Jiang, Jiakui, Li, Xiang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8105699/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33963992
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-14159-z
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description The outbreak of COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, has spread across many countries globally. Greatly, there are limited studies concerned with the effect of airborne pollutants on COVID-19 infection, while exposure to airborne pollutants may harm human health. This paper aimed to examine the associations of acute exposure to ambient atmospheric pollutants to daily newly COVID-19 confirmed cases in 41 Chinese cities. Using a generalized additive model with Poisson distribution controlling for temperature and relative humidity, we evaluated the association between pollutant concentrations and daily COVID-19 confirmation at single-city level and multicity levels. We observed a 10-μg/m(3) rise in levels of PM(2.5) (lag 0−14), O(3) (lag 0−1), SO(2) (lag 0), and NO(2) (lag 0−14) were positively associated with relative risks of 1.050 (95% CI: 1.028, 1.073), 1.011 (1.007, 1.015), 1.052 (1.022, 1.083), and 1.094 (1.028, 1.164) of daily newly confirmed cases, respectively. Further adjustment for other pollutants did not change the associations materially (excepting in the model for SO(2)). Our results indicated that COVID-19 incidence may be susceptible to airborne pollutants such as PM(2.5), O(3), SO(2), and NO(2), and mitigation strategies of environmental factors are required to prevent spreading. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11356-021-14159-z.
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spelling pubmed-81056992021-05-10 Associations of acute exposure to airborne pollutants with COVID-19 infection: evidence from China Lu, Bingqing Wu, Na Jiang, Jiakui Li, Xiang Environ Sci Pollut Res Int Research Article The outbreak of COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, has spread across many countries globally. Greatly, there are limited studies concerned with the effect of airborne pollutants on COVID-19 infection, while exposure to airborne pollutants may harm human health. This paper aimed to examine the associations of acute exposure to ambient atmospheric pollutants to daily newly COVID-19 confirmed cases in 41 Chinese cities. Using a generalized additive model with Poisson distribution controlling for temperature and relative humidity, we evaluated the association between pollutant concentrations and daily COVID-19 confirmation at single-city level and multicity levels. We observed a 10-μg/m(3) rise in levels of PM(2.5) (lag 0−14), O(3) (lag 0−1), SO(2) (lag 0), and NO(2) (lag 0−14) were positively associated with relative risks of 1.050 (95% CI: 1.028, 1.073), 1.011 (1.007, 1.015), 1.052 (1.022, 1.083), and 1.094 (1.028, 1.164) of daily newly confirmed cases, respectively. Further adjustment for other pollutants did not change the associations materially (excepting in the model for SO(2)). Our results indicated that COVID-19 incidence may be susceptible to airborne pollutants such as PM(2.5), O(3), SO(2), and NO(2), and mitigation strategies of environmental factors are required to prevent spreading. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11356-021-14159-z. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-05-08 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8105699/ /pubmed/33963992 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-14159-z Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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title_short Associations of acute exposure to airborne pollutants with COVID-19 infection: evidence from China
title_sort associations of acute exposure to airborne pollutants with covid-19 infection: evidence from china
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8105699/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33963992
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-14159-z
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