Prevalence, Severity and Mortality associated with COPD and Smoking in patients with COVID-19: A Rapid Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

  1. Jaber S. Alqahtani
  2. Tope Oyelade
  3. Abdulelah M. Aldhahir
  4. Saeed M. Alghamdi
  5. Mater Almehmadi
  6. Abdullah S. Alqahtani
  7. Shumonta Quaderi
  8. Swapna Mandal
  9. John R. Hurst

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    SciScore for 10.1101/2020.03.25.20043745: (What is this?)

    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board Statementnot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    We searched MEDLINE and Google scholar from inception date to March 16, 2020.
    MEDLINE
    suggested: (MEDLINE, RRID:SCR_002185)
    Google scholar
    suggested: (Google Scholar, RRID:SCR_008878)
    All retrieved studies were exported into EndNote to remove duplicates.
    EndNote
    suggested: (EndNote, RRID:SCR_014001)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).

    Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
    This review has some limitations. Few studies were eligible for inclusion and most of them come from China. Second, heterogeneity exists in location, setting, and design. The reported clinical characteristics were not available in most of the studies at the time of analyses. This work has a number of clinical and research implications. It highlights the global prevalence and the clinical effects of COVID-19 on COPD patients and smokers. As COPD patients are at an increased risk of severe outcomes if they became infected with COVID-19, it is recommended that patients and clinicians establish effective plans for ensuring prevention, such as using tele-medicine to ensure that COPD receive the best care (56, 57). We strongly advocate public awareness campaigns concentrating on ways to achieve smoking cessation among smokers, and it is possible that an improvement in cessation rates will help to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Future studies should investigate the mechanisms between COPD, smoking and COVID-19 infection.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.

    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.

    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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  2. Version published to 10.1371/journal.pone.0233147
  3. Version published to 10.1101/2020.03.25.20043745v1 on medRxiv