Association of Cigarette Smoking, COPD, and Lung Cancer With Expression of SARS-CoV-2 Entry Genes in Human Airway Epithelial Cells.

Front Med (Lausanne) · 2020 · PMC7793919 · PMID 33425965

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In our current study we could demonstrate that current smokers show a highly significant increase in ACE2 expression as compared to never smokers, which is in line with previous findings ( 19 ).

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