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. 2020 Jul 22;10:1279. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2020.01279

Table 4.

Odds Ratios and 95% confidence intervals for COVID-19 severity in cancer patients.

OR* 95% CI
Sex
Male 1.00 Ref
Female 0.59 (0.25–1.40)
Age
≤60 1.00 Ref
>60 0.82 (0.35–1.93)
SES
Low 1.00 Ref
Middle N/A N/A
High 2.11 (0.51–8.67)
Ethnicity
White 1.00 Ref
Black 0.40 (0.13–1.28)
Asian 1.55 (0.26–9.16)
Other 0.52 (0.06–4.57)
Number of comorbidities
0 1.00 Ref
1 1.09 (0.29–4.07)
2 1.04 (0.23–4.68)
3+ 1.26 (0.29–5.41)
P for trend 0.776
Smoking history
Never 1.00 Ref
Ever 1.39 (0.36–5.33)
Cancer type
Solid 1.00 Ref
Hematological 3.14 (0.70–14.03)
Treatment paradigm
No active treatment 1.00 Ref
Radical/curative 2.76 (0.34–22.16)
Palliative 3.40 (0.50–23.20)
Time since cancer diagnosis
≤24 months 1.00 Ref
>24 months 1.74 (0.71–4.26)
Performance status
0–2 1.00 Ref
3+ 0.33 (0.04–2.64)
Symptoms
Cough 1.27 (0.53–3.01)
Fever 6.21 (1.76–21.99)
Dyspnea 2.60 (1.00–6.76)
GI symptoms 7.38 (2.71–20.16)
Time between first symptom and diagnosis
<7 days 1.00 Ref
7–14 days 0.85 (0.28–2.54)
>14 days 1.02 (0.26–4.02)
CRP (mg/L)
T1 (3–41) 1.00 Ref
T2 (42–117) 1.95 (0.19–20.25)
T3 (126–508) 9.43 (0.73–121.12)
Lymphocytes (×109)
≤0.5 1.00 Ref
0.6–0.8 0.49 (0.06–3.73)
0.9–1.2 0.27 (0.03–2.34)
>1.2 0.63 (0.07–5.84)
Albumin (g/L)
T1 (20–32) 1.00 Ref
T2 (33–38) 1.13 (0.18–7.00)
T3 (39–57) 0.07 (0.01–0.96)
*

Adjustment as defined by the DAG (Table A1).