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. 2020 Jul 1;30(12):6797–6807. doi: 10.1007/s00330-020-07022-1

Table 2.

Patients’ clinical characteristics

Characteristics COVID-19 (n = 88) Non-COVID-19 (n = 80) Overall (n = 168) p value
Clinical characteristics
  Age 47.3 ± 12.4 42.8 ± 17.3 45.2 ± 15.1 0.053
  Male 42, 47.7% 30, 37.5% 72, 42.9% 0.182
  History of exposure 68, 77.3% 20, 25% 88, 52.4% < 0.001
Laboratory tests
  Leukocyte count (×109 per L) (range, 3.5–9.5) 4.6 (3.5, 5.7) 6.8 (4.5, 9.1) 5.4 (3.9, 7.2) < 0.001
    Decrease 23 6 29
    Increase 1 17 18
Neutrophil count (× 109 per L) (range, 1.8–6.3) 2.9 (2.0, 3.9) 4.4 (2.7, 7.0) 3.3 (2.3, 5.2) < 0.001
  Decrease 17 7 24
  Increase 3 23 26
Lymphocyte count (× 109 per L) (range 1.1–3.2) 1.2 (1.0, 1.6) 1.3 (1.0, 1.9) 1.3 (1.0, 1.7) 0.115
  Decrease 28 26 54
  Increase 2 2 4
Platelet count (× 109 per L) (range 125–350) 179.5 (141.0, 223.5) 217.5 (174.5, 274.8) 202 (152.3, 250.3) < 0.001
  Decrease 5 10 15
  Increase 5 4 9
C-reactive protein (mg/L, 0.0–6.0) 8.6 (3.1, 23.4) 12.1 (3.1, 33.6) 10.1 (3.1, 25.5) 0.363
  Increase 32 56 88

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