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. 2020 Aug 24;22(9):1657-1659.
doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntaa107.

Impact of Smoking Status on Disease Severity and Mortality of Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Antonios Karanasos  1 , Konstantinos Aznaouridis  1 , George Latsios  1 , Andreas Synetos  1 , Stella Plitaria  1 , Dimitrios Tousoulis  1 , Konstantinos Toutouzas  1
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Impact of Smoking Status on Disease Severity and Mortality of Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Antonios Karanasos et al. Nicotine Tob Res. .
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Figure 1.
Forest plot and risk of bias tables examining in hospitalized COVID-19 patients the association of smoking with (A) the composite end point of disease severity in China and in US regions and (B) mortality. Boxes represent odds ratio (OR) and lines represent the 95% confidence interval [CI] for individual studies. Diamonds and their width represent pooled ORs and the 95% CI, respectively.
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