Table 2.

Baseline characteristics of COVID-19 ICU patients and post-surgery control patients aged 18-60years.

	COVID-19 induced sepsis <60years; n=51	postoperative patients <60years; n=23	p-value
gender male	33 (65%)	9 (39%)	0.047
CMV-IgG positive at day one	44 (86%)	14 (61%)	0.030
age in years median (IQR)	49 (45-56)	50 (35-57)	0.935
SOFA score at day one median (IQR)	9 (5,5-12)	n.a.
Co-Morbidities
- pulmonal (non copd)	3 (7%)	3 (13%)	0.657
- copd	2 (5%)	4 (17%)	0.174
- nicotin	4 (10%)	7 (30%)	0.043
- diabetes	11 (26%)	3 (13%)	0.345
- hypertension	18 (43%)	9 (39%)	0.799
- obesity	24 (57%)	6 (26%)	0.021
- cardiovascular	4 (10%)	2 (8%)	1.000
- malignant	2 (5%)	20 (87%)	0.001
- alcohol	1 (2%)	3 (13%)	0.123
- transplantation	3 (7%)	1 (4%)	1.000
- Kidney (non rrt)	5 (12%)	1 (4%)	0.411
- renal replacement therapy	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	n.a.
length of stay on ICU days median (IQR)	21 (6-35)	n.a.	n.a.
length of stay in hospital median (IQR)	23 (10,5-42,5)	13 (6-22)	0.025
30-day survival	30 (59%)	23 (100%)	0.001

n.a., not applicable.