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Categories: Heart News, COVID-19
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Published: July 26, 2022

Smoking, vaping linked to higher risk of severe COVID-19 complications, including death

Researchers used data from the American Heart Association’s COVID-19 CVD Registry to determine the impact of smoking or vaping among people hospitalized with COVID-19
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Aruni Bhatnagar Ph.D. FAHA

Aruni Bhatnagar, Ph.D., FAHA, co-director of the American Heart Association’s Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science and a professor of medicine, biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky

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