Nations with high smoking rate have low sars-cov-2 infection and low covid-19 mortality rate

Autor:	Landoni G., Zangrillo A., Garcia C. S. R., Faustini C., Di Piazza M., Conte F., Gattarello S., Kuzovlev A., Likhvantsev V., Puglisi R.
Přispěvatelé:	Landoni, G., Zangrillo, A., Garcia, C. S. R., Faustini, C., Di Piazza, M., Conte, F., Gattarello, S., Kuzovlev, A., Likhvantsev, V., Puglisi, R.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Male Critical care Smoking Tobacco Prevalence Tobacco Smoking COVID-19 Humans Intensive care mortality Global Health Aged
Popis:	Summary. Background and aim of the work: The effect of tobacco smoking on COVID-19 disease is debated, with common sense and experts suggesting a deleterious effect, and manuscripts worldwide reporting a low prevalence of active tobacco smokers among intensive care unit patients. Methods: We categorized countries worldwide into three groups with 45% of active male smokers with data expressed as median and interquartile range [IQR] and extracted data on SARS-CoV-2 infections and COVID-19 deaths per million inhabitants from public available databases. We also applied multivariate regression techniques to adjust for several epidemiological factors. Results: COVID-19 mortality was 13 (5-24) per million inhabitants in countries with male smokers >45% and 33 (4-133) in countries where male smokers were
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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