Reply to Chan et al

Liyang Zhao; Yusi Li; Wenjuan Yi; Kuo Yan; Chao Yang; Sridhar Radhakrishnan; Rui Li; Ruirong Tan; Gang Fan; Mengyuan Dai; Miao Liu; Ning-Yi Shao

doi:10.1002/jmv.28283

Reply to Chan et al

J Med Virol. 2023 Jan;95(1):e28283. doi: 10.1002/jmv.28283.

Authors

Liyang Zhao¹, Yusi Li¹, Wenjuan Yi², Kuo Yan³, Chao Yang⁴, Sridhar Radhakrishnan⁵, Rui Li⁶, Ruirong Tan⁷, Gang Fan⁸, Mengyuan Dai⁹, Miao Liu¹⁰, Ning-Yi Shao^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, China.
² Department of Dermatology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
³ Institute of Cell and Neurobiology, Charité Medical University, Berlin, Germany.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
⁶ Department of Radiation Oncology, Sichuan Cancer Hospital & Institute, Sichuan Cancer Center, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
⁷ Translational Chinese Medicine Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Institute for Translational Chinese Medicine, Sichuan Academy of Chinese Medicine Sciences, Chengdu, China.
⁸ Department of Urology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Union Shenzhen Hospital, The 6th Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University Health Science Center, Shenzhen, China.
⁹ Department of Gynecological Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
¹⁰ Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
¹¹ MoE Frontiers Science Center for Precision Oncology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, China.

PMID: 36333280
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.28283

Abstract

We agree that smoking might be a risk factor for the severity of COVID-19, but in our previous study, smoking was not so robust compared with our conclusion. Also, we strongly agreed that COVID-19 patients with diabetes or other chronic diseases might worsen the situation of the disease. But these factors were out of the scope of our study and we had published other research on this topic related to diabetes. Because of the limited sample size and original medical records, our study could not cover many factors. But we wish our study will be a useful and meaningful pilot study for future studies.

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