Clinical characteristics of COVID-19 hospitalized patients associated with mortality: A cohort study in Spain.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The heterogeneity of patients with COVID-19 may explain the wide variation of mortality rate due to the population characteristics, presence of comorbidities and clinical manifestations.

Methods

In this study, we analyzed 5342 patients' recordings and selected a cohort of 177 hospitalized patients with a poor prognosis at an early stage. We assessed during 6 months their symptomatology, coexisting health conditions, clinical measures and health assistance related to mortality. Multiple Cox proportional hazards models were built to identify the associated factors with mortality risk.

Results

We observed that cough and kidney failure triplicate the mortality risk and both bilirubin levels and oncologic condition are shown as the most associated with the demis

SUBMITTER: Lozano M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9023371 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature