Questioning the sex-specific differences in the association of smoking on the survival rate of hospitalized COVID-19 patients

• Athar Khalil ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aak67@mail.aub.edu (AK); drmahmoudhassoun@hotmail.com (MH)

  Affiliation Clinical Research Unit, Rafik Hariri University Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4072-6143

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• Radhika Dhingra,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Institute for Environmental Health Solutions, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Jida Al-Mulki,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pulmonary and Intensive Care Unit, Rafik Hariri University Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Mahmoud Hassoun ,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aak67@mail.aub.edu (AK); drmahmoudhassoun@hotmail.com (MH)

  Affiliation Department of Pulmonary and Intensive Care Unit, Rafik Hariri University Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Neil Alexis

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Environmental Medicine Asthma and Lung Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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