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Severe air pollution links to higher mortality in COVID-19 patients: The “double-hit” hypothesis.

OBJECTIVES: In areas of SARS-CoV-2 outbreak worldwide mean air pollutants concentrations vastly exceed the maximum limits. Chronic exposure to air pollutants have been associated with lung ACE-2 over-expression which is known to be the main receptor for SARS-CoV-2. The aim of this study was to analy...

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Autores principales: Frontera, Antonio, Cianfanelli, Lorenzo, Vlachos, Konstantinos, Landoni, Giovanni, Cremona, George
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Infection Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7240268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32447007
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2020.05.031