Purpose To study the association between the use of drugs for hypertension or heart failure, particularly diuretics, and risk of death in COVID-19. Methods We conducted a cohort study, based on record linked individual-based data from national registers, of all Swedish inhabitants 50 years and older ( n = 3,909,321) at the start of the first SARS-CoV-2 wave in Sweden. The association between use of angiotensin-converting enzym...

Climate is assumed to strongly influence species distribution and abundance. Although the performance of many organisms is influenced by the climate in their immediate proximity, the climate data used to model their distributions often have a coarse spatial resolution. This is problematic because the local climate experienced by individuals might deviate substantially from the regional average. This problem is likely to be par...