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Comment
. 2020 Nov;15(8):1601-1603.
doi: 10.1007/s11739-020-02473-2. Epub 2020 Aug 16.

Systematic review of the prevalence of current smoking among hospitalized COVID‑19 patients in China: could nicotine be a therapeutic option?

Hisato Takagi  1
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Systematic review of the prevalence of current smoking among hospitalized COVID‑19 patients in China: could nicotine be a therapeutic option?

Hisato Takagi. Intern Emerg Med. 2020 Nov.
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Meta-regression graph depicting COVID-19 prevalence (plotted as logarithm-transformed prevalence on the Y-axis) as a function of smoking prevalence (plotted on the X-axis)
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