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LitCovid-PubTator

Id Subject Object Predicate Lexical cue tao:has_database_id
305 86-89 Chemical denotes NO2
306 104-112 Disease denotes COVID-19 MESH:C000657245
307 113-122 Disease denotes mortality MESH:D003643
308 715-723 Disease denotes COVID-19 MESH:C000657245
309 724-730 Disease denotes deaths MESH:D003643
310 1119-1127 Disease denotes COVID-19 MESH:C000657245
311 1128-1137 Disease denotes mortality MESH:D003643
312 1476-1484 Disease denotes COVID-19 MESH:C000657245
313 1485-1494 Disease denotes mortality MESH:D003643
314 1562-1570 Disease denotes COVID-19 MESH:C000657245
315 1571-1580 Disease denotes mortality MESH:D003643

LitCovid-sentences

Id Subject Object Predicate Lexical cue
T224 0-159 Sentence denotes Our study is the first study to examine the association between long-term exposure to NO2 and PM2.5 and COVID-19 mortality at very high geographical precision.
T225 160-458 Sentence denotes The spatial unit of our analysis is LSOAs, for which there are 32,844 in England (~130 000 km2), whereas previous studies have used 317 LTLAs or 175 sampling units in England, counties in the US (3 122 in an area ~9.8 million km2) and municipalities in the Netherlands (334 in an area ~41 500 km2).
T226 459-628 Sentence denotes Such high-resolution allows capturing the localised geographical patterns of the pollutants but also ensures adequate confounding and spatial autocorrelation adjustment.
T227 629-877 Sentence denotes Our study also covers, so far, the largest temporal window of the epidemic (capturing COVID-19 deaths attributable to the first wave, Supplemental Material Fig. S34), while most previous studies focused on the early to mid-stages of the first wave.
T228 878-930 Sentence denotes This ensures better generalisability of the results.
T229 931-1182 Sentence denotes In addition, physical distancing and other public health interventions were introduced nationwide in England during the first epidemic, mitigating any distortion between air-pollution and COVID-19 mortality due to potential regional level differences.
T230 1183-1324 Sentence denotes Our results are also consistent in a sensitivity analysis focusing on the pre-lockdown period, in the absence of public health interventions.
T231 1325-1495 Sentence denotes Based on the scientific literature, we adjusted for several variables which would act as the confounders of the relationship between air pollution and COVID-19 mortality.
T232 1496-1686 Sentence denotes Nevertheless, since the aetiology and the factors contributing to COVID-19 mortality are not fully understood yet, we included a spatial random effect to capture unknown spatial confounding.
T233 1687-1762 Sentence denotes The spatial random effect was found to be a crucial component in the model.
T234 1763-1953 Sentence denotes Not accounting for spatial autocorrelation, when spatial autocorrelation is present, is expected to give rise to narrower credible intervals and false positive effects (Lee and Sarran 2015).