Increased age, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and white blood cells count are associated with higher COVID-19 mortality
Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) caused by the highly pathogenic SARS-CoV-2, was first reported from Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The present study assessed possible associations between one-month mortality and demographic data, SpO2, underlying diseases and laboratory findings, in COVID-19 patients. Also, since recent studies on COVID-19, have focused on Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) as an independent risk factor of the in-hospital death and a significant prognostic biomarker of outcomes in critically ill patients, in this study, we assessed predictive potential of this factor in terms of one-month mortality.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Elnaz Vafadar Moradi, Ali Teimouri, Ramin Rezaee, Negar Morovatdar, Mahdi Foroughian, Parvaneh Layegh, Behrang Rezvani Kakhki, Seyed Reza Ahmadi Koupaei, Vahideh Ghorani Source Type: research
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