Your browser doesn't support javascript.
Show: 20 | 50 | 100
Results 1 - 1 de 1
Filter
Add filters

Database
Language
Document Type
Year range
1.
Clin Transl Oncol ; 23(1): 5-9, 2021 Jan.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-342934

ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a change in our society and put health systems in crisis worldwide. Different risk factors and comorbidities have been found that increase the risk of mortality when acquiring this infection. The use of alternative devices to the cigarette like the electronic cigarettes, the vapers have been studied widely and generators of great controversy since it has been discovered that they also produce different pulmonary affections. When developing the SARS-CoV2 infection, different theories have been generated about the greater predisposition to a worse prognosis of people who use electronic cigarettes; however, the information on this continues in discovery. A group of experts made up of oncologists, infectologists, pulmonologists, and epidemiologists met to review the literature and then generate theories about the impact of electronic cigarettes on SARS-CoV2 infection.


Subject(s)
COVID-19/pathology , Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems , Vaping/adverse effects , COVID-19/epidemiology , Disease Susceptibility , Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems/statistics & numerical data , Humans , Macrophages/metabolism , Pulmonary Alveoli/immunology , Pulmonary Alveoli/pathology , Risk , SARS-CoV-2 , Vaping/epidemiology , Young Adult
SELECTION OF CITATIONS
SEARCH DETAIL