Table 3.

Hospital Admission Laboratory markers of inflammation in Covid‐19 patients with and without neurologic manifestations.

	Overall	No neurologic manifestation	Any neurologic manifestation	P	No encephalopathy	Encephalopathy	P
n	509	90	419		347	162
White blood cell, (median [IQR]), Reference: 3.5–10.5 1000/µL	6.3 [4.6, 8.3]	6.3 [4.4, 9.4]	6.3 [4.7, 8.2]	0.863	5.9 [4.6, 7.7]	6.9 [5.0, 9.4]	0.001
Platelet, (median [IQR]), Reference: 140–390 1000/µL	199 [162, 249]	206 [170, 248]	198 [162, 249]	0.542	200 [165, 247]	199 [159, 255]	0.68
C‐Reactive Protein, (median [IQR]), Reference: 0.0–0.5 mg/dL	10.45 [3.73, 29.68]	10.15 [3.58, 44.89]	10.60 [4.00, 28.38]	0.948	9.40 [3.30, 29.64]	13.80 [4.60, 29.80]	0.033
D‐dimer, (median [IQR]), Reference: 0–230 ng/mL	296 [185, 583]	332 [192, 595]	285 [184, 570]	0.568	265 [166, 448]	436 [240, 847]	<0.001
Ferritin, (median [IQR]), Reference: 24–336 ng/mL	448 [196, 949]	398 [159, 738]	468 [205, 976]	0.153	352 [187, 816]	633 [257, 1244]	0.002
Procalcitonin, (median [IQR]), Reference: ≤0.065 ng/mL	0.10 [0.02, 0.24]	0.10 [0.02, 0.39]	0.10 [0.02, 0.24]	0.757	0.07 [0.02, 0.18]	0.17 [0.08, 0.41]	<0.001