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Table 1 Illness severity based on clinical and laboratory findings and demographic characteristics

From: Clinical and CT scan findings in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia: a comparison based on disease severity

 

Illness severity

p-value†

Mild/moderate

Severe

Very severe

Sex; frequency (%)

 Male

17 (41.46)

16 (39.02)

8 (19.51)

0.193

 Female

23 (57.50)

14 (35.00)

3 (7.50)

 

Age; mean (SD)

57.97 (17.14)

62.10 (15.95)

65.63 (17.18)

0.859

Hospitalization days; mean (SD)

4.45 (3.30)

9.83 (5.65)

10.60 (7.49)

0.013

Initial symptoms: frequency (%)

 Fever

29 (59.18)

15 (30.61)

5 (10.20)

0.089

 Cough

35 (49.30)

26 (36.62)

10 (14.08)

0.934

 Sputum

6 (66.67)

2 (22.22)

1 (11.11)

0.533

 Muscular pain

17 (47.22)

13 (36.11)

6 (16.67)

0.767

 Tachypnea

36 (48.00)

28 (37.33)

11 (14.67)

0.523

Laboratory test; mean (SD)

 WBC (*103)

7.36 (10.46)

11.23 (16.80)

12.55 (15.65)

0.075

 Creatinine

1.13 (0.59)

1.17 (0.53)

1.24 (0.87)

0.300

 AST (U/L)

20.30 (4.97)

33.77 (24.09)

25 (3.61)

0.698

 Platelet

212 (101.49)

213.04 (101.51)

153.27 (72.37)

0.694

 Lymphocyte

0.28 (0.11)

0.35 (0.30)

0.24 (0.29)

0.008

 Neutrophil count *103 L

0.65 (0.13)

0.76 (0.19)

0.84 (0.08)

0.035

 CRP (mg/L)

22.73 (16.65)

44.09 (29.90)

34.67 (30.14)

0.823

 Glucose

145.45 (49.15)

137.67 (64.45)

222.63 (108.93)

0.498

 PTT

29.28 (3.56)

30.34 (6.27)

32.78 (11.03)

0.332

 Prothrombin time

13.28 (3.76)

13.51 (3.04)

13.26 (1.32)

0.490

 LDH (U/L)

608.38 (724.34)

714.62 (346.81)

803.00 (397.04)

0.910

Comorbidities; frequency (%)

 Diabetics

5 (35.71)

6 (42.86)

3 (21.43)

0.458

 Hypertension

11 (47.83)

9 (39.13)

3 (13.04)

0.970

 Cardiovascular disease

6 (46.15)

5 (38.46)

2 (15.38)

0.962

 COPD

3 (60.00)

1 (20.00)

1 (20.00)

0.704

 Hypothyroidism

1 (33.33)

3 (66.66)

0 (0.00)

0.516

  1. †p-value from Pearson’s chi-squared test statistics and one-way ANOVA between illness severity and clinical and demographic characteristics. WBC white blood cell counts, AST aspartate aminotransferase, CRP C-reactive protein, LDH lactate dehydrogenase, COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease