TY - JOUR
T1 - Premature mortality attributable to COVID-19
T2 - potential years of life lost in 17 countries around the world, January–August 2020
AU - On behalf of the C-MOR consortium
AU - Ugarte, Maider Pagola
AU - Achilleos, Souzana
AU - Quattrocchi, Annalisa
AU - Gabel, John
AU - Kolokotroni, Ourania
AU - Constantinou, Constantina
AU - Nicolaou, Nicoletta
AU - Rodriguez-Llanes, Jose Manuel
AU - Huang, Qian
AU - Verstiuk, Olesia
AU - Pidmurniak, Nataliia
AU - Tao, Jennifer Wenjing
AU - Burström, Bo
AU - Klepac, Petra
AU - Erzen, Ivan
AU - Chong, Mario
AU - Barron, Manuel
AU - Hagen, Terje P.
AU - Kalmatayeva, Zhanna
AU - Davletov, Kairat
AU - Zucker, Inbar
AU - Kaufman, Zalman
AU - Kereselidze, Maia
AU - Kandelaki, Levan
AU - Le Meur, Nolwenn
AU - Goldsmith, Lucy
AU - Critchley, Julia A.
AU - Pinilla, Maria Angelica
AU - Jaramillo, Gloria Isabel
AU - Teixeira, Domingos
AU - Goméz, Lara Ferrero
AU - Lobato, Jackeline
AU - Araújo, Carolina
AU - Cuthbertson, Joseph
AU - Bennett, Catherine M.
AU - Polemitis, Antonis
AU - Charalambous, Andreas
AU - Demetriou, Christiana A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the University of Nicosia Medical School (internal funding). The funding supported researchers’ salaries to work on the study design, data analysis and interpretation, and production of this manuscript. The funding body played no role in the design of the study and collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/1
Y1 - 2022/1
N2 - Background: Understanding the impact of the burden of COVID-19 is key to successfully navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of a larger investigation on COVID-19 mortality impact, this study aims to estimate the Potential Years of Life Lost (PYLL) in 17 countries and territories across the world (Australia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cyprus, France, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Peru, Norway, England & Wales, Scotland, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, and the United States [USA]). Methods: Age- and sex-specific COVID-19 death numbers from primary national sources were collected by an international research consortium. The study period was established based on the availability of data from the inception of the pandemic to the end of August 2020. The PYLL for each country were computed using 80 years as the maximum life expectancy. Results: As of August 2020, 442,677 (range: 18–185,083) deaths attributed to COVID-19 were recorded in 17 countries which translated to 4,210,654 (range: 112–1,554,225) PYLL. The average PYLL per death was 8.7 years, with substantial variation ranging from 2.7 years in Australia to 19.3 PYLL in Ukraine. North and South American countries as well as England & Wales, Scotland and Sweden experienced the highest PYLL per 100,000 population; whereas Australia, Slovenia and Georgia experienced the lowest. Overall, males experienced higher PYLL rate and higher PYLL per death than females. In most countries, most of the PYLL were observed for people aged over 60 or 65 years, irrespective of sex. Yet, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Israel, Peru, Scotland, Ukraine, and the USA concentrated most PYLL in younger age groups. Conclusions: Our results highlight the role of PYLL as a tool to understand the impact of COVID-19 on demographic groups within and across countries, guiding preventive measures to protect these groups under the ongoing pandemic. Continuous monitoring of PYLL is therefore needed to better understand the burden of COVID-19 in terms of premature mortality.
AB - Background: Understanding the impact of the burden of COVID-19 is key to successfully navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of a larger investigation on COVID-19 mortality impact, this study aims to estimate the Potential Years of Life Lost (PYLL) in 17 countries and territories across the world (Australia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cyprus, France, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Peru, Norway, England & Wales, Scotland, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, and the United States [USA]). Methods: Age- and sex-specific COVID-19 death numbers from primary national sources were collected by an international research consortium. The study period was established based on the availability of data from the inception of the pandemic to the end of August 2020. The PYLL for each country were computed using 80 years as the maximum life expectancy. Results: As of August 2020, 442,677 (range: 18–185,083) deaths attributed to COVID-19 were recorded in 17 countries which translated to 4,210,654 (range: 112–1,554,225) PYLL. The average PYLL per death was 8.7 years, with substantial variation ranging from 2.7 years in Australia to 19.3 PYLL in Ukraine. North and South American countries as well as England & Wales, Scotland and Sweden experienced the highest PYLL per 100,000 population; whereas Australia, Slovenia and Georgia experienced the lowest. Overall, males experienced higher PYLL rate and higher PYLL per death than females. In most countries, most of the PYLL were observed for people aged over 60 or 65 years, irrespective of sex. Yet, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Israel, Peru, Scotland, Ukraine, and the USA concentrated most PYLL in younger age groups. Conclusions: Our results highlight the role of PYLL as a tool to understand the impact of COVID-19 on demographic groups within and across countries, guiding preventive measures to protect these groups under the ongoing pandemic. Continuous monitoring of PYLL is therefore needed to better understand the burden of COVID-19 in terms of premature mortality.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Disease burden
KW - Pandemic
KW - Potential years of life lost
KW - PYLL
KW - SARS-CoV-2
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85122690897&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1186/s12889-021-12377-1
DO - 10.1186/s12889-021-12377-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85122690897
SN - 1471-2458
VL - 22
JO - BMC Public Health
JF - BMC Public Health
IS - 1
M1 - 54
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