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Primary Symptoms, Comorbidities, and Outcomes of 431 Hospitalized Patients with Confirmative RT-PCR Results for COVID-19
- Source :
- The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- This study aimed to evaluate the primary symptoms, comorbidities, and outcomes of inpatients with confirmed reverse transcription–PCR (RT-PCR) for SARS-CoV-2 infection among 2077 suspected/diagnosed cases of COVID-19. Based on the results of Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) logistic regression, age, and suggestive chest X-ray (CXR) findings for SARS-CoV-2 infection, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus, chronic lung diseases, and intensive care units admission had significant associations with positive RT-PCR results for COVID-19 infection. Also, the highest area under the curve (AUC) was related to cough (AUC = 0.53, 95% CI: 0.51–0.56), dyspnea (AUC = 0.52, 95% CI: 0.50–0.54), and abnormal CXR (AUC = 0.52, 95% CI: 0.50–0.54), as significant predictors. This study showed that some symptoms including cough and dyspnea, as well as abnormal CXR, could be proper predictors of positive RT-PCR result for SARS-CoV-2 infection. It seems that patients with underlying disease(s), such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus, and chronic lung diseases, had a higher probability to have positive RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 infection than those with no underlying disease(s).
- Subjects :
- Adult
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Adolescent
Cross-sectional study
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Pneumonia, Viral
Comorbidity
Iran
Logistic regression
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Betacoronavirus
Young Adult
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COVID-19 Testing
Virology
Diabetes mellitus
Internal medicine
Intensive care
medicine
Humans
Young adult
Child
Pandemics
Aged
business.industry
Clinical Laboratory Techniques
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
SARS-CoV-2
Area under the curve
COVID-19
Articles
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
respiratory tract diseases
Hospitalization
Pneumonia
Infectious Diseases
Cross-Sectional Studies
Parasitology
business
Coronavirus Infections
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14761645
- Volume :
- 103
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f69d78d11dd67c85bfbf5dc44424356b