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PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 185, Issue -, Pages 261-263Publisher
W B SAUNDERS CO LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2020.06.056
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COVID-19; Deprivation; Ethnicity; Pollution; Overweight; Obesity; Population density
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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. (C) 2020 The Royal Society for Public Health. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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