Biomarkers and outcomes in hospitalised patients with COVID-19: a prospective registry.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine association of biomarkers-high-sensitivity C reactive protein (hsCRP), D-dimer, interleukin-6 (IL-6), lactic dehydrogenase (LDH), ferritin and neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR)-at hospitalisation with outcomes in COVID-19.

Design and setting

Tertiary-care hospital based prospective registry.

Participants

Successive virologically confirmed patients with COVID-19 hospitalised from April 2020 to July 2021 were prospectively recruited. Details of clinical presentation, investigations, management and outcomes were obtained.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

All biomarkers were divided into tertiles to determine associations with clinical features and outcomes. Primary outcome was all-cause deaths and secondary outcome was oxygen requirem

SUBMITTER: Khedar RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9755908 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature