Modelling the joint association of socio-economic disadvantage, diabetes, and obesity on COVID-19 mortality in Greater Mexico City

Abstract The impact of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has severely affected populations with lower socioeconomic background and with certain comorbidities. Many studies have examined the effect of poor socioeconomic conditions or specific comorbidities separately on COVID-19 mortality. However,...

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Main Authors: Alejandro Lome-Hurtado, Manuel Soto-Pérez
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Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-07-01
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description Abstract The impact of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has severely affected populations with lower socioeconomic background and with certain comorbidities. Many studies have examined the effect of poor socioeconomic conditions or specific comorbidities separately on COVID-19 mortality. However, it is important to understand the joint effect of deprived socioeconomic conditions and specific comorbidities on COVID-19 mortality. Such a joint effect may play a different role in dying of COVID-19, when compared with the effect of deprived socioeconomic conditions and comorbidities separately. Therefore, this study investigates the joint association of deprived socioeconomic background and severe comorbidities (diabetes and obesity) on COVID-19 mortality, in Greater Mexico City. The study used official Mexican COVID-19 data at the individual and municipal level. The results illustrate significant and positive association of the socioeconomic deprivation index along with diabetes and obesity on COVID-19 mortality. This underscores the need for individualized, targeted, and public interventions that consider the role of lower socioeconomic status and specific comorbidities to reduce mortality.
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spelling doaj-art-9c0b65d8cd524bf3bcf79c0771bce3bd2025-08-20T03:45:23ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222025-07-011511810.1038/s41598-025-08615-wModelling the joint association of socio-economic disadvantage, diabetes, and obesity on COVID-19 mortality in Greater Mexico CityAlejandro Lome-Hurtado0Manuel Soto-Pérez1Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad PanamericanaFacultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad PanamericanaAbstract The impact of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has severely affected populations with lower socioeconomic background and with certain comorbidities. Many studies have examined the effect of poor socioeconomic conditions or specific comorbidities separately on COVID-19 mortality. However, it is important to understand the joint effect of deprived socioeconomic conditions and specific comorbidities on COVID-19 mortality. Such a joint effect may play a different role in dying of COVID-19, when compared with the effect of deprived socioeconomic conditions and comorbidities separately. Therefore, this study investigates the joint association of deprived socioeconomic background and severe comorbidities (diabetes and obesity) on COVID-19 mortality, in Greater Mexico City. The study used official Mexican COVID-19 data at the individual and municipal level. The results illustrate significant and positive association of the socioeconomic deprivation index along with diabetes and obesity on COVID-19 mortality. This underscores the need for individualized, targeted, and public interventions that consider the role of lower socioeconomic status and specific comorbidities to reduce mortality.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-08615-wInequalityDiabetesObesityCOVID-19Mexico
spellingShingle Alejandro Lome-Hurtado
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Modelling the joint association of socio-economic disadvantage, diabetes, and obesity on COVID-19 mortality in Greater Mexico City
Scientific Reports
Inequality
Diabetes
Obesity
COVID-19
Mexico
title Modelling the joint association of socio-economic disadvantage, diabetes, and obesity on COVID-19 mortality in Greater Mexico City
title_full Modelling the joint association of socio-economic disadvantage, diabetes, and obesity on COVID-19 mortality in Greater Mexico City
title_fullStr Modelling the joint association of socio-economic disadvantage, diabetes, and obesity on COVID-19 mortality in Greater Mexico City
title_full_unstemmed Modelling the joint association of socio-economic disadvantage, diabetes, and obesity on COVID-19 mortality in Greater Mexico City
title_short Modelling the joint association of socio-economic disadvantage, diabetes, and obesity on COVID-19 mortality in Greater Mexico City
title_sort modelling the joint association of socio economic disadvantage diabetes and obesity on covid 19 mortality in greater mexico city
topic Inequality
Diabetes
Obesity
COVID-19
Mexico
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-08615-w
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