Table 2.
Symptomatic and radiological characteristics of patients infected with COVID-19.
| All patient | Disease Severity |
p value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-severe | Severe | |||
| Signs and symptoms, n (%) | ||||
| N | 1663 | 799 | 864 | |
| Fever | 1427(85.8) | 671(84.0) | 756(87.5) | 0.04 |
| Cough | 598(36.0) | 252(31.5) | 346(40.1) | 0.0003 |
| Fatigue | 392(23.6) | 168(21.0) | 224(25.9) | 0.02 |
| Chest tightness | 198(11.9) | 71(8.9) | 127(14.7) | 0.0003 |
| Diarrhea | 76(4.6) | 33(4.1) | 43(5.0) | 0.41 |
| Dyspnea | 73(4.4) | 30(3.8) | 43(5.0) | 0.22 |
| Loss of appetite | 69(4.2) | 25(3.1) | 44(5.1) | 0.04 |
| Myalgia | 57(3.4) | 26(3.3) | 31(3.6) | 0.71 |
| Dizziness/headache | 29(1.7) | 12(1.5) | 17(2.0) | 0.47 |
| Pharyngalgia | 24(1.4) | 12(1.5) | 12(1.4) | 0.85 |
| Nausea | 18(1.1) | 11(1.4) | 7(0.8) | 0.26 |
| Vomiting | 18(1.1) | 11(1.4) | 7(0.8) | 0.26 |
| Runny nose | 4(0.2) | 1(0.1) | 3(0.4) | 0.36 |
| Stuffy nose | 1(0.1) | 0(0.0) | 1(0.1) | – |
| Chest CT images, n (%) | ||||
| N | 1475 | 763 | 712 | |
| Lesion distribution | ||||
| Bilateral lung lobe | 1348(91.4) | 691(90.6) | 657(92.3) | 0.24 |
| Unilateral lung lobe-left | 78(5.3) | 39(5.1) | 39(5.5) | 0.75 |
| Unilateral lung lobe-right | 46(3.1) | 30(3.9) | 16(2.3) | 0.06 |
| Upper lobe+Lower lobe | 919(62.3) | 478(62.6) | 441(61.9) | 0.70 |
| Upper lobe | 179(12.1) | 87(11.4) | 92(12.9) | 0.39 |
| Lower lobe | 374(25.4) | 195(25.6) | 179(25.1) | 0.82 |
| Normal lung | 3(0.2) | 3(0.4) | 0(0.0) | – |
| Image characteristics | ||||
| Ground-glass opacity | 661(44.8) | 334(43.8) | 327(45.9) | 0.41 |
| Local patchy shadowing | 1043(70.7) | 542(71.0) | 501(70.4) | 0.78 |
| Pleural effusion | 216(14.6) | 88(11.5) | 128(18.0) | 0.0005 |
| Bronchiectasis | 24(1.6) | 5(0.7) | 19(2.7) | 0.002 |
| Atelectasis | 6(0.4) | 3(0.4) | 3(0.4) | 1.00 |
COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019. The percentages were calculated column-wise.