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The alarming connection between cigarette smoking and Corona has been revealed
Cigarette smoking is a very bad thing for health in general, but it also has a crucial impact on the severity of the disease caused by the corona virus.
Here is the data that comes from a large study on the subject
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Monday, 11 January 2021, 07:33
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Already in the early stages of the corona epidemic it was clear that smoking could have a severe effect on the symptoms of COVID-19, but many experts were skeptical about the nature of the effect of smoking on the corona, and question marks remained.
Now, almost a year after the outbreak, a new study from King's College London brings conclusive evidence.
The new study, published in the journal Thorax, examined whether there was a link between smoking and COVID-19 severity by analyzing data from a corona symptom monitoring app.
The researchers found that smokers have an increased risk of developing COVID-19 symptoms and that they are more likely to go to hospitals compared to their non-smoking counterparts.
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The study authors took data from the ZOE COVID app collected between March 24 and April 23, 2020, and evaluated the results of 2,401,982 participants who reported self-symptoms.
Of all respondents, 11 percent were smokers.
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Of the study participants, a third of them reported that they felt physically unwell during this one-month period.
However, smokers' chances of reporting the classic trio of COVID-19 symptoms — persistent cough, shortness of breath, and fever — were 14 percent higher than in patients who were tested and did not smoke.
Increases the risk of serious illness.
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Furthermore, smokers were more likely to report additional symptoms associated with COVID-19 infection.
Smokers were 29 percent more likely to report up to five known symptoms of COVID-19, and 50 percent more likely to report more than 10 symptoms, compared with non-smokers.
In conclusion, the study authors said that smokers experienced a wider range of symptoms than non-smokers and therefore they experienced more severe coronary heart disease.
"Our results clearly show that smokers are at increased risk of having a wider range of COVID-19 symptoms than non-smokers," Dr. Mario Palci, one of the study's authors, said in a press release. "Our analysis shows that smoking increases the likelihood of "People get to hospitals, so quitting smoking is one of the things we can do to reduce the health consequences of the disease," the researchers concluded.
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