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. 2020 Jul:77:127-128.
doi: 10.1016/j.ejim.2020.05.033. Epub 2020 May 28.

Active smoking and severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): Differences in measurement of variables could cause errors in the results

J J Sánchez  1 , N Acevedo  2 , E Guzmán  2
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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

J J Sánchez et al. Eur J Intern Med. 2020 Jul.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; Cigarette; SARS-CoV-2; Smoking.

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Declaration of Competing Interests The authors declare they have no conflict of interest.

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