Mihaltan Florin Dumitru, Rajnoveanu Armand-Gabriel, Rajnoveanu Ruxandra-Mioara
Pneumology Department, Marius Nasta National Institute of Pneumology, Bucharest, Romania.
Occupational Medicine Department, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Front Med (Lausanne). 2021 Apr 30;8:584061. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2021.584061. eCollection 2021.
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) brought in 2020 an important challenge for health-care systems and authorities. Smoking and its influence on this disease remain, after months of the pandemic, one of the debatable risk factors. From the literature point of view, the focus of most articles is on smoking as a possible general risk factor for all analyzed populations. Women tend to represent a more significant population in exposed occupations. In our mini-review, we try to dig deeper, looking for gender-related health effects of smoking in this pandemic context, its effects on the infection with this novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), on illness severity, and on the rate of hospitalization and mortality. Despite the fact that the male gender is reported in many articles as a predictor of a poor outcome, we suggest that further research is needed to confirm or deny these relationships. Moreover, studies focusing specifically on women in these study populations are required.
2019年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）在2020年给医疗保健系统和当局带来了重大挑战。在这场大流行数月之后，吸烟及其对这种疾病的影响仍然是有争议的风险因素之一。从文献角度来看，大多数文章关注的是吸烟作为所有分析人群可能的一般风险因素。在接触性职业中，女性往往占更显著的比例。在我们的小型综述中，我们试图更深入地探究，寻找在这种大流行背景下吸烟对健康的性别相关影响，其对感染新型严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2（SARS-CoV-2）的影响、对疾病严重程度的影响以及对住院率和死亡率的影响。尽管许多文章将男性性别报道为预后不良的预测因素，但我们认为需要进一步研究来证实或否定这些关系。此外，还需要专门针对这些研究人群中的女性进行研究。
