Evaluation of serum ferritin for prediction of severity and mortality in COVID-19- A cross sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ferritin even though widely recognized as a representative of total body iron stores, its prognostic utility is linked with COVID-19. This study was aimed at evaluation of the association of ferritin with severity in Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), hospitalized patients and to test the hypothesis that it is an independent predictor of mortality.

Material and methods

This study was conducted at Chemical Pathology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Aga Khan University (AKU), Karachi. Medical records of all in-patients including both genders, and all age groups with documented COVID-19 from 1st March to 10^th August 2020 were reviewed. The subjects were divided into two categories severe and non-severe COVID-19; and survivors and non-sur

SUBMITTER: Ahmed S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7879065 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature