Active smoking is not associated with severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Giuseppe Lippi¹, Brandon Michael Henry²

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¹ Section of Clinical Biochemistry Department of Neuroscience Biomedicine and Movement, University of Verona, Verona, Italy. Electronic address: giuseppe.lippi@univr.it.
² Cardiac Intensive Care Unit The Heart Institute Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Ohio, United States.

PMID: 32192856
PMCID: PMC7118593
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2020.03.014

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Active smoking is not associated with severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Giuseppe Lippi et al. Eur J Intern Med. 2020 May.

. 2020 May:75:107-108.

doi: 10.1016/j.ejim.2020.03.014. Epub 2020 Mar 16.

Authors

Giuseppe Lippi¹, Brandon Michael Henry²

Affiliations

¹ Section of Clinical Biochemistry Department of Neuroscience Biomedicine and Movement, University of Verona, Verona, Italy. Electronic address: giuseppe.lippi@univr.it.
² Cardiac Intensive Care Unit The Heart Institute Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Ohio, United States.

PMID: 32192856
PMCID: PMC7118593
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2020.03.014

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Keywords: COVID-19; Cigarette; Coronavirus; Smoking.

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Fig 1 — **Fig. 1**
Odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) of active smoking between coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients with or without severe disease. .

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Active smoking and severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): The use of significance testing leads to an erroneous conclusion.
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Active smoking and severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): Differences in measurement of variables could cause errors in the results.
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Does active smoking worsen Covid-19?
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A flaw on a meta-analysis of smoking and the severity of COVID-19: the association should have been endorsed.
Guo FR. Guo FR. J Public Health (Oxf). 2020 Aug 18;42(3):653-654. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa083. J Public Health (Oxf). 2020. PMID: 32542369 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
No double-edged sword and no doubt about the relation between smoking and COVID-19 severity.
Gallus S, Lugo A, Gorini G. Gallus S, et al. Eur J Intern Med. 2020 Jul;77:33-35. doi: 10.1016/j.ejim.2020.06.014. Epub 2020 Jun 13. Eur J Intern Med. 2020. PMID: 32564904 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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[The epidemiological characteristics of an outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus diseases (COVID-19) in China].
Epidemiology Working Group for NCIP Epidemic Response, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Epidemiology Working Group for NCIP Epidemic Response, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi. 2020 Feb 10;41(2):145-151. doi: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0254-6450.2020.02.003. Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi. 2020. PMID: 32064853 Chinese.

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