Clinical characteristics and risk factors of 267 patients having severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome-new epidemiological characteristics of fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome: Epidemiological characteristics of SFTS.

Objective: To analyze the epidemiological distribution, clinical characteristics, and prognostic risk factors of patients having severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS).
Methods: We enrolled 790 patients with SFTS divided into the ordinary group and the severe group, analyzed the clinical characteristics, and screened the risk factors of severious patients by univariate logistic regression analysis.
Results: Most of the 790 patients (SFTS) are farmers (84.56%). The proportion of patients with fieldwork history was 72.41%, of which 21.27% had a clear history of a tick bite and 98.61% were sporadic cases. The annual peak season is from April to November. 16.33% patients were not accompanied by fever. The incidence of severe thrombocytopenia was 47.59%. They were statistically significant between the 2 groups in indicators such as age, hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes mellitus, bunyavirus nucleic acid load and mean platelet count (P < .05). Multivariate non conditional Logistic regression analysis showed that the risk factors of the mild patients deteriorating severe disease were age (OR = 1.985, P  ≤ .003), diabetes mellitus (OR = 1.702, P  ≤ .001), coronary heart disease (OR = 1.381, P ≤ .003), platelet count (OR = 2.592, P  ≤ .001), viral nucleic acid loading (OR = 3.908, P  ≤ .001).
Conclusion: The incidence population and seasonal distribution characteristics of patients with SFTS are obvious. The risk factors for poor prognosis of severe patients are old age, multiple basic medical histories, high viral load, a serious decrease of mean platelet count, and delay of treatment time.
Competing Interests: The authors have no funding and conflicts of interest to disclose.
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