Published on in Vol 10, No 11 (2021): November

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/32285, first published .
Seroepidemiological Survey on the Impact of Smoking on SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19 Outcomes: Protocol for the Troina Study

Seroepidemiological Survey on the Impact of Smoking on SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19 Outcomes: Protocol for the Troina Study

Seroepidemiological Survey on the Impact of Smoking on SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19 Outcomes: Protocol for the Troina Study

Riccardo Polosa   1, 2, 3 , MD, PhD ;   Venera Tomaselli   3, 4 , PhD ;   Pietro Ferrara   5, 6 , MD ;   Alba Corina Romeo   7 , MBiol ;   Sonja Rust   3 , BS, PhD ;   Daniela Saitta   2, 3 , MA ;   Filippo Caraci   3, 7, 8 , RTDb ;   Corrado Romano   7 , MD ;   Murugesan Thangaraju   9, 10 , PhD ;   Pietro Zuccarello   11 , PhD ;   Jed Rose   9, 10 , MD, PhD ;   Giulio Giacomo Cantone   12 , MSc ;   Margherita Ferrante   3, 11 , MD ;   Jonathan Belsey   13 , BS, MB ;   Fabio Cibella   3, 14 , MD ;   Elisa Interlandi   15 , BTC ;   Raffaele Ferri   7 , MD

1 Institute of Internal Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria “Policlinico - V. Emanuele”, Catania, Italy

2 Department of Clinical & Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

3 Center of Excellence for the Acceleration of Harm Reduction, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy

4 Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

5 Center for Public Health Research, University of Milano–Bicocca, Monza, Italy

6 Value-based Healthcare Unit, Research Institute, IRCCS, MultiMedica, Milan, Italy

7 Oasi Research Institute, IRCCS, Troina, Italy

8 Department of Drug and Health Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

9 Bioanalytical Laboratory, Center for Smoking Cessation, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States

10 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States

11 Department of Medical, Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies “G.F. Ingrassia”, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

12 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ettore Majorana, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

13 JB Medical Ltd, Sudbury, United Kingdom

14 National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology, Palermo, Italy

15 Federazione Sanità (CIDEC), Sicilia, Italy

Corresponding Author:

  • Riccardo Polosa, MD, PhD
  • Institute of Internal Medicine
  • Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria “Policlinico - V. Emanuele”
  • Via S Sofia, 78
  • Catania, 95123
  • Italy
  • Phone: 39 0953781566
  • Email: polosa@unict.it