tetano
Editor, Senior Moderator
Public Health
. 2020 Jul 7;185:261-263.
doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2020.06.056. Online ahead of print.
Coronavirus disease 2019 mortality: a multivariate ecological analysis in relation to ethnicity, population density, obesity, deprivation and pollution
I Bray[SUP] 1 [/SUP], A Gibson[SUP] 2 [/SUP], J White[SUP] 3 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Background: There is emerging evidence about characteristics that may increase the risk of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality, but they are highly correlated.
Methods: An ecological analysis was used to estimate associations between these variables and age-standardised COVID-19 mortality rates at the local authority level.
Results: Ethnicity, population density and overweight/obesity were all found to have strong independent associations with COVID-19 mortality, at the local authority level.
Discussion: This analysis provides some preliminary evidence about which variables are independently associated with COVID-19 mortality and suggests that others (deprivation and pollution) are not directly linked. It highlights the importance of multivariate analyses to understand the factors that increase vulnerability to COVID-19.
Keywords: COVID-19; Deprivation; Ethnicity; Obesity; Overweight; Pollution; Population density
. 2020 Jul 7;185:261-263.
doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2020.06.056. Online ahead of print.
Coronavirus disease 2019 mortality: a multivariate ecological analysis in relation to ethnicity, population density, obesity, deprivation and pollution
I Bray[SUP] 1 [/SUP], A Gibson[SUP] 2 [/SUP], J White[SUP] 3 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 32693249
- DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2020.06.056
Abstract
Background: There is emerging evidence about characteristics that may increase the risk of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality, but they are highly correlated.
Methods: An ecological analysis was used to estimate associations between these variables and age-standardised COVID-19 mortality rates at the local authority level.
Results: Ethnicity, population density and overweight/obesity were all found to have strong independent associations with COVID-19 mortality, at the local authority level.
Discussion: This analysis provides some preliminary evidence about which variables are independently associated with COVID-19 mortality and suggests that others (deprivation and pollution) are not directly linked. It highlights the importance of multivariate analyses to understand the factors that increase vulnerability to COVID-19.
Keywords: COVID-19; Deprivation; Ethnicity; Obesity; Overweight; Pollution; Population density