Effect of meteorological factors and Air Quality Index on the COVID-19 epidemiological characteristics: an ecological study among 210 countries

Vali, Mohebat; Hassanzadeh, Jafar; Mirahmadizadeh, Alireza; Hoseini, Mohammad; Dehghani, Samaneh; Maleki, Zahra; Méndez-Arriaga, Fabiola; Ghaem, Haleh

doi:10.1007/s11356-021-14322-6

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“…A wide array of meteorological factors including particulate matter, air pollution, and heat were identified as positively associated with the spread of COVID-19. Studies identified that reported on the relationship between meteorological parameters and COVID-19 spread in different regions of the world [ [21] , [22] , [23] , [24] , [25] , [26] , [27] , [28] , [29] , [30] , [31] , [32] , [33] , [34] , [35] , [36] , [37] , [38] , [39] , [40] , [41] , [42] , [43] , [44] , [45] , [46] , [47] , [48] , [49] , [50] , [51] , [52] , [53] , [54] , [55] , [56] , [57] , [58] , [59] , [60] , [61] , [62] , [63] , [64] , [65] , [66] , [67] , [68] , [69] , [70] , [71] , [72] , [73] , [74] , [75] , [76] , [77] , [78] , [79] ] are shown in Table 1 . The interplay among meteorological factors (air pollution, meteorological parameters, and climate change) ...…”

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“…Statistical analyses were conducted using R software. Decline in air quality contributed to a greater number of daily COVID-19 cases and deaths [ 76 ] Global Meteorological variables, COVID-19 infections and mortality Weather data were extracted from the NOAA database. COVID infection and death rates were obtained from World Health Organization reports.…”

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The effects of air pollution, meteorological parameters, and climate change on COVID-19 comorbidity and health disparities: A systematic review

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Ramesh

Hood

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Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology

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The effects of air pollution, meteorological parameters, and climate change on COVID-19 comorbidity and health disparities: A systematic review

Juárez

Ramesh

Hood

et al. 2022

Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology

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“…Meanwhile, several meaningful cross-country conclusions can be drawn from the comparison of this paper and five relevant empirical researches. We compared five cohort studies focusing on the relationship between PM10 and dementia, all of which are from low-pollution countries such as the USA, Canada and Australia (Grande et al 2020 ; Ilango et al 2020 ; Paul et al 2019 ; Vali et al 2021 ). The results systematically indicated that in low-pollution countries, a 100 μ g/ m 3 increase in APCs was associated with a 14–32% increase in the hazard ratio of suffering dementia.…”

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Is there a casual relation between air pollution and dementia?

Xie

2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Dementia has been cited as a critical public health risk in the contemporary world, while few empirical researchers try to reveal the casual relationship between air pollutant concentrations (APCs) and dementia, especially given the increasing prevalence of air pollution on a global scale. Accordingly, this paper tries to infer the causal relationship between APCs and dementia. The 59,605 valid data was compiled through a combination of the statistic from the China Family Panel Study, China Environmental Statistics Yearbook, World Meteorological Association and China National Bureau of Statistics. The RD design of this study utilizes the discontinuous variation in APCs and dementia as one crosses the Huai River boundary, which is an arbitrary heating policy that causes the significant difference in APCs between the north and south of China. We used stata17.0 to analyze the data. The results of the RD regression indicated that a 100 μ g/ m 3 rise in APCs led to an increase of 42.4% in the hazard ratio of suffering dementia (Coeff=-0.58, SD= 0.23, P < 0.05). Meanwhile, heterogeneous models revealed that the hazard ratio of suffering dementia by APCs was more significant in the older compared to younger (coeff= 1.35 vs coeff= 1.55, P < 0.05), male compared to female (coeff= 1.62 vs coeff= 0.71, P < 0.05), smoking compared to non-smoke (coeff= 2.12 vs coeff= 0.93, P < 0.05), and thin groups compared to medium and obesity (coeff= 2.05 vs coeff= 1.22, coeff= 1.28, P < 0.05). In addition, the O3 and SO2 were the air pollutants with the highest (coeff= 1.54, P < 0.05) and lowest effects (coeff= 0.81, P < 0.05) on the hazard ratio of suffering dementia among the five APCs, respectively. And the robustness of the results was ensured by changing the RD bandwidth, polynomial order. The results indicated that APCs significantly induced the hazard ratio of suffering dementia of Chinese residents, which provides empirical evidence in supporting the Chinese government to invest more in combating air pollution and ensure the public health of Chinese residents.

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“…Infectious diseases may be directly transmitted through airborne particles or pollutants (Metcalf et al., 2017). At the same time, high air pollution levels can also interfere with people's immune systems and weaken the ability of the respiratory system to remove viruses (Mohebat et al., 2021). These evidence all indicate that the level of air pollution is closely related to the spread of infectious diseases.…”

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Does carbon emission trading contribute to reducing infectious diseases? Evidence from China

Hao

Shen

2022

Growth and Change

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Research at the biophysical level constitutes the main approach to study the path through which climate influences infectious diseases, but the influence of socioeconomic factors on climate change and the spread of infectious diseases also cannot be ignored. In the current context, with its emphasis on carbon emission reduction, countries have begun to adopt “total control and trading” methods to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This paper is based on the monthly relevant data of various provinces and cities from 2015 to 2019, adds the moderating variable of “carbon emission trading volume” based on current research results, establishes a static model of unbalanced panel fixed effects and a dynamic panel model, and deeply analyzes the impact of climate change on infectious disease popularity and the moderating effect of the carbon trading market. The study found that climate warming, frequent precipitation, and shortened sunshine duration will lead to an increase in the number of infectious disease cases and that the “carbon emission trading volume” variable plays a negative role in the positive correlation between climate change (temperature/precipitation) and the number of infectious disease cases. There are seasonal differences, and the moderating effect in summer/autumn is more obvious than that in winter/spring.

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Effect of meteorological factors and Air Quality Index on the COVID-19 epidemiological characteristics: an ecological study among 210 countries

Cited by 18 publications

References 59 publications

The effects of air pollution, meteorological parameters, and climate change on COVID-19 comorbidity and health disparities: A systematic review

The effects of air pollution, meteorological parameters, and climate change on COVID-19 comorbidity and health disparities: A systematic review

Is there a casual relation between air pollution and dementia?

Does carbon emission trading contribute to reducing infectious diseases? Evidence from China

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