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ArticleAlcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire)2020

Are Patients With Alcohol Use Disorders at Increased Risk for Covid-19 Infection?

Gianni Testino

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Article in Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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65citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

65 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Alcohol's Effects on the Lung and Lung Disease.Alcohol research : current reviews · 2025
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  12. Substances of abuse and their effect on SAR-CoV-2 pathogenesis.NeuroImmune pharmacology and therapeutics · 2023
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  15. Activities Carried Out during the First COVID-19 Lockdown by Italian Citizens.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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5 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Gianni TestinoUnit of Addiction and Hepatology, Alcohological Regional Centre, ASL3 c/o Polyclinic San Martino Hospital, Padiglione 10, Piazzale R Benzi 10, 16132 Genova, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusAlcoholismAngiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2AnimalsCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19EthanolFemaleHumansMalePandemicsPeptidyl-Dipeptidase APneumonia, ViralRespiratory Tract InfectionsRisk FactorsSARS-CoV-2ACE2 protein, humanAngiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2EthanolPeptidyl-Dipeptidase A

Identifiers

PMID32400858
PMCPMC7239257

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