{"id":2135,"date":"2020-11-12T17:58:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T01:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2020-11-13T17:59:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T01:59:42","slug":"smoking-doubles-the-mortality-risk-in-covid-19-a-meta-analysis-of-recent-reports-and-potential-mechanisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/12\/smoking-doubles-the-mortality-risk-in-covid-19-a-meta-analysis-of-recent-reports-and-potential-mechanisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking Doubles the Mortality Risk in COVID-19: A Meta-Analysis of Recent Reports and Potential Mechanisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A systematic review and meta-analysis of 10 studies (n = 11,189 COVID-19 patients) found that smokers had a 2-fold increased risk of mortality compared to non-smokers. There was no difference in mortality risk between current and former smokers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Salah et al. (Oct 7, 2020). Smoking Doubles the Mortality Risk in COVID-19: A Meta-Analysis of Recent Reports and Potential Mechanisms. Cureus. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7759\/cureus.10837\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7759\/cureus.10837<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A systematic review and meta-analysis of 10 studies (n = 11,189 COVID-19 patients) found that smokers had a 2-fold increased risk of mortality compared to non-smokers. There was no difference in mortality risk between current and former smokers. Salah et al. (Oct 7, 2020). Smoking Doubles the Mortality Risk in COVID-19: A Meta-Analysis of Recent&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/12\/smoking-doubles-the-mortality-risk-in-covid-19-a-meta-analysis-of-recent-reports-and-potential-mechanisms\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-risk-factors","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}