Saturday, October 02, 2021

Smoking highly likely to worsen COVID-19 severity and risk of associated death

 

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/929403

 

 News Release 27-Sep-2021
BMJ

 

Smoking is highly likely to worsen the severity of COVID-19 and the risk of dying from the infection, finds a large UK Biobank study published online in the respiratory journal Thorax.

It is the first study of its kind to pool observational and genetic data on smoking and COVID-19 to strengthen the evidence base.

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