Smoking is associated with higher risk of contracting bacterial infection and pneumonia, intensive care unit admission and death.

<h4>Background</h4>Smoking has been associated with a higher risk of contracting pneumonia, but contradictory results have shown that smoking may or may not decrease the risk of dying in pneumonia. The aim of this study is to investigate how smoking is associated with contracting any inf...

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Main Authors: Karl Stattin, Mikael Eriksson, Robert Frithiof, Rafael Kawati, Douglas Crockett, Michael Hultström, Miklos Lipcsey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0302505&type=printable