Effectiveness of public health measures in reducing the incidence of covid-19, SARS-CoV-2 transmission, and covid-19 mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis

S Talic, S Shah, H Wild, D Gasevic, A Maharaj, Z Ademi… - bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
Objective To review the evidence on the effectiveness of public health measures in reducing
the incidence of covid-19, SARS-CoV-2 transmission, and covid-19 mortality. Design …

Prospective study design and data analysis in UK Biobank

NE Allen, B Lacey, DA Lawlor, JP Pell… - Science translational …, 2024 - science.org
Population-based prospective studies, such as UK Biobank, are valuable for generating and
testing hypotheses about the potential causes of human disease. We describe how UK …

Occupation and COVID-19 mortality in England: a national linked data study of 14.3 million adults

V Nafilyan, P Pawelek, D Ayoubkhani… - Occupational and …, 2022 - oem.bmj.com
Objectives To estimate occupational differences in COVID-19 mortality and test whether
these are confounded by factors such as regional differences, ethnicity and education or due …

COVID-19 mortality in the UK Biobank cohort: revisiting and evaluating risk factors

J Elliott, B Bodinier, M Whitaker, C Delpierre… - European journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Most studies of severe/fatal COVID-19 risk have used routine/hospitalisation data without
detailed pre-morbid characterisation. Using the community-based UK Biobank cohort, we …

[HTML][HTML] Associations of air pollution with COVID-19 positivity, hospitalisations, and mortality: observational evidence from UK Biobank

C Sheridan, J Klompmaker, S Cummins, P James… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Individual-level studies with adjustment for important COVID-19 risk factors suggest positive
associations of long-term air pollution exposure (particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide) …

[HTML][HTML] Covid-19: virology, variants, and vaccines

M Young, H Crook, J Scott, P Edison - BMJ medicine, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract As of 25 January 2022, over 349 million individuals have received a confirmed
diagnosis of covid-19, with over 5.59 million confirmed deaths associated with the SARS …

[HTML][HTML] Particulate matter air pollution and COVID-19 infection, severity, and mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis

N Sheppard, M Carroll, C Gao, T Lane - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Ecological evidence links ambient particulate matter≤ 2.5 mm (PM 2.5) and the rate of
COVID-19 infections, severity, and deaths. However, such studies are unable to account for …

Mass gathering events and COVID-19 transmission in Borriana (Spain): A retrospective cohort study

S Domènech-Montoliu, MR Pac-Sa, P Vidal-Utrillas… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Objective Mass gathering events (MGEs) are associated with the transmission of COVID-19.
Between 6 and 10 March 2020, several MGEs related to the Falles festival took place in …

Determinants of antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines: population-based longitudinal study (COVIDENCE UK)

DA Jolliffe, SE Faustini, H Holt, N Perdek, S Maltby… - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines vary for reasons that remain poorly
understood. A range of sociodemographic, behavioural, clinical, pharmacologic and …

A meta-analysis of the association between obesity and COVID-19

J Yang, ZY Ma, YC Lei - Epidemiology & Infection, 2021 - cambridge.org
Owing to limited data, we conducted a meta-analysis to re-evaluate the relationship between
obesity and coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19). Literature published between 1 January 2020 …