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SUBMITTER: Pena S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9700668 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Peña Sebastián S Ilmarinen Katja K Kestilä Laura L Parikka Suvi S Kärkkäinen Sanna S Caspersen Ida Henriette IH Shaaban Ahmed Nabil AN Magnus Per P Galanti Maria Rosaria MR Karvonen Sakari S
Scientific reports 20221125 1
Empirical evidence, primarily based on hospital-based or voluntary samples, suggests that current smokers have a lower risk of COVID-19 infection than never smokers. In this study, we used nationally representative data to examine the association between tobacco use and the risk of having a confirmed COVID-19 case. We explored several forms of tobacco use, contributing to separate the role of nicotine from smoking. We used data from 44,199 participants from three pooled national health surveys i ...[more]