The potential impact of PM2.5 on the covid-19 crisis in the Brazilian Amazon region
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16780579 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karen Dos Santos Gonçalves (0000-0002-3075-6779, Barcelona Institute for Global Health. Biomedical Data Science Team. Barcelona, Spain), Glauber G Cirino (0000-0003-1105-7603, Universidade Federal do Pará), Marcelo Oliveira‐da‐Costa (0000-0002-8004-9079, World Wide Fund for Nature. Brasília, DF, Brasil), Lucas De Oliveira Do Couto (0000-0002-3758-3567, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Giovane G Tortelote (0000-0002-9312-3442, Tulane University), Sandra De Souza Hacon (0000-0003-2836-3447, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revista de Saúde Pública (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-8910 • E-ISSN: 0034-8910 |
| Publisher | Universidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.11606/s1518-8787.2023057005134 |
| PMID | 37878853 |
| OpenAlex | W4387753059 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to assess covid-19 morbidity, mortality, and severity from 2020 to 2021 in five Brazilian Amazon states with the highest records of wildfires. METHODS: A distributed lag non-linear model was applied to estimate the potential exposure risk association with particulate matter smaller than 2.5-μm in diameter (PM2.5). Daily mean temperature, relative humidity, percentual of community mobility, number of hospital beds, days of the week, and holidays were considered in the final models for controlling the confounding factors. RESULTS: The states of Para, Mato Grosso, and Amazonas have reported the highest values of overall cases, deaths, and severe cases of covid-19. The worrying growth in the percentual rates in 2020/2021 for the incidence, severity, and mortality were highlighted in Rondônia and Mato Grosso. The growth in 2020/2021 in the estimations of PM2.5 concentrations was higher in Mato Grosso, with an increase of 24.4%, followed by Rondônia (14.9%). CONCLUSION: This study establishes an association between wildfire-generated PM2.5 and increasing covid-19 incidence, mortality, and severity within the studied area. The findings showed that the risk of covid-19 morbidity and mortality is nearly two times higher among individuals exposed to high concentrations of PM2.5. The attributable fraction to PM2.5 in the studied area represents an important role in the risk associated with covid-19 in the Brazilian Amazon region
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Amazon rainforest · Biology · Confounding · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Environmental health · Geography · Incidence (geometry) · Outbreak · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · COVID-19 impact on air quality · Demography · Fire effects on ecosystems · Internal Medicine · Mathematics · Medicine · Virology
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017
Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains
Air pollution and Covid-19 mortality in the United States
Sars-CoV-2 Cell Entry Depends on ACE2 and TMPRSS2 and Is Blocked by a Clinically Proven Protease Inhibitor
Exposure to air pollution and Covid-19 mortality in the United States
An interactive web-based dashboard to track Covid-19 in real time
| Highly cited | No |
|---|