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. 2023 Dec 8;23:2463. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-17361-5

Table 2.

Clinical characteristics of symptomatic cases of COVID-19 in Sichuan province

Subgroup Symptomatic cases (N = 86,384) No. of symptoms (mean, days) Clinical durationa Clinical Severity
(M-IQR, days) Light/Medium (n,%) (N1 = 39,268) Severe (n,%) (N2 = 47,116) p-value$
Sex
 Male 34,194 6 9 (6 ~ 14) 18,528 (54.18) 15,666 (45.82) < 0.001
 Female 52,190 7 12 (7 ~ 17) 20,740 (39.74) 31,450 (60.26)
Age group, years
 0 ~ 6 573 6 6 (3 ~ 9) 461 (80.45) 112 (19.55) < 0.001
 7 ~ 12 1328 3 6 (3 ~ 10) 1118 (84.19) 210 (15.81)
 13 ~ 25 9933 4 9 (6 ~ 13) 6293 (63.35) 3640 (36.65)
 26 ~ 50 53,476 6 11 (7 ~ 16) 23,394 (43.75) 30,082 (56.25)
 51 ~ 64 17,127 6 12 (8 ~ 17) 6748 (39.4) 10,379 (60.6)
 65~ 3947 6 13 (9 ~ 19) 1254 (31.77) 2693 (68.23)
Underlying conditions
 Without chronical diseases 68,838 6 10 (7 ~ 15) 32,942 (47.85) 35,896 (52.15) < 0.001
 With chronical diseases 17,546 6 12 (8 ~ 17) 6326 (36.05) 11,220 (63.95)
Vaccination status
 Unvaccinated 2122 6 12 (7 ~ 17) 761 (35.86) 1361 (64.14) < 0.001
 1 ~ 2does 12,418 6 9 (6 ~ 15) 6389 (51.45) 6029 (48.55)
 3 does 71,073 6 11 (7 ~ 16) 31,721 (44.63) 39,352 (55.37)
 4 does 771 6 10 (6 ~ 14.25) 397 (51.49) 374 (48.51)
Current smoker
 Yes 11,873 5 8 (5 ~ 13) 7556 (63.64) 4317 (36.36) < 0.001
 No 74,511 6 11 (7 ~ 16) 31,712 (42.56) 42,799 (57.44)

$ Differences in the proportion of different clinical outcomes were analyzed using the Chi-square and trend chi-square tests

aClinical duration refers to symptom duration, which indicates symptomatic cases that have already recovered. However, 58,917 cases were involved in the clinical duration analysis