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 , IT

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

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

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

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

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

7 Oasi Research Institute , IRCCS , Troina , IT

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

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

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

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

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

13 JB Medical Ltd , Sudbury , GB

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

15 Federazione Sanità (CIDEC) , Sicilia , IT

Corresponding Author:

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