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Current tobacco smoking and risk from COVID-19: results from a population symptom app in over 2.4 million people

2020-05-21 respiratory medicine Title + abstract only
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BackgroundThe association between current tobacco smoking, the risk of developing COVID-19 and the severity of illness is an important information gap. MethodsUK users of the COVID Symptom Study app provided baseline data including demographics, anthropometrics, smoking status and medical conditions, were asked to log symptoms daily from 24th March 2020 to 23rd April 2020. Participants reporting that they did not feel physically normal were taken through a series of questions, including 14 pote...

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