Table 3.

Association between factors and duration of viral shedding.

	Duration of viral shedding		p value
	With factors	Without factors
Senior (age > 60 years)	24.00 (18.00–35.00); n = 21	17.00 (11.00–26.50); n = 35	0.037
Male	17.50 (12.50–24.00); n = 28	25.00 (12.75–34.25); n = 28	0.076
Underlying diseases*	25.00 (15.75–37.50); n = 20	18.00 (11.00–26.25); n = 36	0.038
Overweight or obese (BMI > 23.9 kg/m2)	19.50 (15.25–32.00); n = 14	18.00 (11.00–27.00); n = 31	0.500
Use of glucocorticoids	22.00 (14.00–27.00); n = 18	17.00 (12.00–27.5); n = 38	0.457

*Chronic cardio-cerebrovascular and/or pulmonary diseases. Data are represented as median (interquartile range); n is the number of patients with available data. The p values were obtained from Mann–Whitney U test.