Current tobacco use and COVID-19 diagnoses in a cohort of adult clients of public dental clinics in Sweden
Abstract Smoking has been linked with both increased and decreased risk of COVID-19, prompting the hypothesis of a protective role of nicotine in the pathogenesis of the disease. Studies of the association between use of smokeless tobacco and COVID-19 would help refining this hypothesis. We analysed...
Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Nature Portfolio
2023-01-01
|
Series: | Scientific Reports |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28091-4 |