From: Blood circulating bacterial DNA in hospitalized old COVID-19 patients
Discharged n = 102 | Deceased n = 47 | p-value | |
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Age, mean ± SEM | 84.00 ± 0.65 | 89.20 ± 0.97 | < 0.001 |
Male sex, n (%) | 38 (37.3%) | 18 (38.3%) | 0.907 |
Hypertension, n (%) | 73 (73.0%) | 34 (73.9%) | 0.908 |
Diabetes, n (%) | 27 (27.0%) | 9 (19.6%) | 0.333 |
COPD, n (%) | 11 (11.0%) | 11 (23.9%) | 0.043 |
IHD, n (%) | 11 (11.0%) | 8 (17.4%) | 0.286 |
AF, n (%) | 26 (26.0%) | 17 (37.0%) | 0.177 |
Dementia, n (%) | 31 (31.0%) | 14 (30.4%) | 0.945 |
CKD, n (%) | 22 (21.5%) | 17 (36.2%) | 0.072 |
Respiratory insufficiency, n (%) | 64 (62.7%) | 43 (91.4%) | < 0.001 |
Fever, n (%) | 48 (47.0%) | 24 (51.5%) | 0.725 |
Cough, n (%) | 31 (30.4%) | 6 (12.7%) | 0.020 |
CFS n (%) 0–3 | 20 (19.6%) | (4.3%) | 0.035 |
4–7 | 51 (50.0%) | 24 (51.1%) | |
8–9 | 29 (28.4%) | 21 (44.7%) | |
na | 2 (2.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | |
CRP (mg/L), mean ± SEMa | 5.15 ± 0.73 | 9.32 ± 1.05 | < 0.001 |
Lymphocytes (103/µL), mean ± SEMa | 1.41 ± 0.10 | 1.03 ± 0.15 | 0.004 |
Neutrophils (103/µL), mean ± SEMa | 5.38 ± 0.47 | 8.73 ± 0.68 | < 0.001 |
NLR, mean ± SEMa | 4.87 ± 1.09 | 13.60 ± 1.56 | < 0.001 |
Fibrinogen (mg/dL), mean ± SEMa | 433 ± 17 | 460 ± 27 | 0.275 |
D-dimer (ng/mL), mean ± SEMa | 1782 ± 371 | 2725 ± 601 | 0.130 |
Procalcitonin (ng/mL), mean ± SEMa | 0.13 ± 0.35 | 2.29 ± 0.61 | 0.001 |
BB-DNA (ng/mL), mean ± SEMa | 19.0 ± 8.7 | 49.7 ± 11.4 | 0.015 |