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

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...

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Main Authors: Konstantinos Farsalinos, Pantelis G. Bagos, Theodoros Giannouchos, Raymond Niaura, Anastasia Barbouni, Konstantinos Poulas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-01-01
Series:Harm Reduction Journal
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-020-00437-5