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Smoking and Severity of COVID-19 Infection: A Short
Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Author(s):
Samirah Abdulrahman Alghamdi*, Abdulrahman Saeed Alahmari, Souad Khalid Bajari, Thamer Mussad Alzahrani, Nuha Hassan Alsubhi, Ahmed Abdulrahman Alolah, Abdulaziz Marzouq Alotaibi, Ali Abdulghalib Alhayek, Ghazi Talal Almohmmadi and Ibrahim Tariq Almohawis
Background: There has been sizeable speculation regarding the association between the severe Acute breathing Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pathogen, coronavirus disorder (COVID-19), and smoking. Aim: This work aims to determine the link between smoking and COVID-19 infection. Materials and Methods: A systematic search was performed over different medical databases to identify Internal Medicine studies, which studied the outcome of the Smokers group versus the Non-Smokers group of COVID-19 patients. Using the meta-analysis process, either with fixed or random-effects models, we conducted a meta-analysis on the prevalence of severe cases as a primary outcome, and on mortality rate as a secondary outcome. Results: Eleven studies were identified involving 146793 patients, 11973 in the Smokers group, and .. Read More»
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