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. 2024 Nov 6;15:1476186. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1476186

Table 3.

Associations between participant characteristics and COVID-19 symptoms in solid carcinoma patients.

Variable COVID-19 infection General symptom Respiratory symptom Digestive tract symptom Fever (≥38°C) Muscular soreness
N (%) p N (%) p N (%) p N (%) p N (%) p N (%) p
Sex
 Male 112 (81.2) 0.303 20 (95.2) 0.953 8 (38.1) 0.107 2 (9.5) 1.000 15 (78.9) 0.967 9 (42.9) 0.535
 Female 122 (76.3) 30 (90.9) 20 (60.6) 3 (9.1) 23 (74.2) 17 (51.5)
Age, years
 18-59 89 (76.1) 0.407 23 (95.8) 0.771 15 (62.5) 0.161 2 (8.3) 1.000 19 (82.6) 0.313 12 (50.0) 0.808
 ≥60 145 (80.1) 27 (90.0) 13 (43.3) 3 (10.0) 19 (70.4) 14 (46.7)
BMI (kg/m2)
 <25.0 59 (89.4) 0.831 41 (95.3) 0.181* 24 (55.8) 0.249 5 (11.6) 0.546 33 (82.5) 0.082 21 (48.8) 0.841
 ≥25.0 16 (84.2) 9 (81.3) 4 (36.4) 0 (0.0) 5 (50.0) 5 (45.5)
Vaccine (s) administered
 Yes 159 (89.8) <0.001 48 (92.3) 1.000* 27 (51.9) 1.000* 5 (9.6) 1.000* 36 (75.0) 1.000* 25 (48.1) 1.000*
 No 75 (62.0) 2 (100.0) 1 (50.0) 0 (0.0) 2 (100.0) 1 (50.0)
Type of carcinoma
 Lung carcinoma 15 (68.2) 0.211 3 (75.0) 0.634* 2 (50.0) 0.518* 0 (0.0) 0.758* 1 (25.0) 0.136* 1 (25.0) 0.297*
 Digestive carcinoma 66 (80.5) 9 (100.0) 3 (33.3) 2 (22.2) 7 (77.8) 5 (55.6)
 Liver carcinoma 17 (85.0) 1 (100.0) 1 (100.0) 0 (0.0) 1 (100.0) 1 (100.0)
 Breast carcinoma 34 (68.0) 12 (92.3) 9 (69.2) 2 (15.4) 8 (66.7) 8 (61.5)
 Thyroid carcinoma 17 (81.0) 5 (100.0) 3 (60.0) 0 (0.0) 3 (75.0) 4 (80.0)
 Prostate carcinoma 29 (90.6) 6 (85.7) 2 (28.6) 0 (0.0) 4 (80.0) 2 (28.6)
 Other carcinomas 55 (78.6) 14 (93.3) 8 (53.3) 1 (6.7) 14 (93.3) 5 (33.3)

Data are presented as number of participants (%). Statistical analyses were conducted using the Chi-squared test and Fisher’s exact test*.