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

• Główni autorzy: Konstantinos Farsalinos (Autor), Pantelis G. Bagos (Autor), Theodoros Giannouchos (Autor), Raymond Niaura (Autor), Anastasia Barbouni (Autor), Konstantinos Poulas (Autor)
• Format: Książka
• Wydane: BMC, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...