Unnes Journal of Public Health
Vol 9 No 2 (2020): Unnes Journal of Public Health

Smoking and Comorbidities in Covid-19: A Systematic Review

Nugraha, Andri (Unknown)
Ernawati, Ernawati (Unknown)
Utama, Tuti Anggriani (Unknown)
Rinjani, Santi (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Jul 2020

Abstract

COVID-19 is highly contagious, causing pneumonia, respiratory failure, death, and becoming a pandemic. Patients with severe infections must be treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with a ventilator. Ventilator facilities in the ICU are limited; it must take precautions by knowing the characteristics of patients at high risk of severe disease in COVID-19, one of which was smoking or comorbidity. The purpose of this study was to assess the risk of comorbidity and smoking in COVID-19. This study used systematic review by searching for articles from the ScienceDirect and Medline databases with journals published on January 1, 2019 - March 31, 2020. The results of the study showed that there were 12 relevant articles full text in English and were analysed. The conclusion was that patients with COVID-19 who were smoking or had comorbidities were more susceptible to COVID-19 infection, more severe illness, and causing death.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ujph

Publisher

Subject

Public Health

Description

Unnes Journal of Public Health (UJPH) is an open access and peer-reviewed journal. It publishes original papers and short reports on all aspects of the science, philosophy, and practice of public health. ...