Smoking prevalence among hospitalized COVID-19 patients and its association with disease severity and mortality: an expanded re-analysis of a recent publication

• Main Authors: Konstantinos Farsalinos (Author), Pantelis G. Bagos (Author), Theodoros Giannouchos (Author), Raymond Niaura (Author), Anastasia Barbouni (Author), Konstantinos Poulas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background There is a lot of debate about the effects of smoking on COVID-19. A recent fixed-effects meta-analysis found smoking to be associated with disease severity among hospitalized patients, but other studies report an unusually low prevalence of smoking among hospitalized patients. T...