Table 1.
Epidemiological and clinical characteristics by sex
| Characteristics | Sex |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female |
Male |
p valuea | Total |
|
| n = 134 | n = 281 | n = 415 | ||
| Age, years | ||||
| Median (IQR) | 69 (54, 79) | 65 (55, 76) | 0.29 | 66 (54, 77) |
| BMI, kg/m2 | ||||
| Median (IQR) | 30.1 (25.4, 33.2) | 26.2 (24.5, 29.4) | 0.009 | 26.7 (24.7, 30.9) |
| Smoking, n (%) | 16/41 (39) | 60/113 (53) | 0.14 | 76/154 (49) |
| Any comorbidity, n (%) | ||||
| Yes | 44 (32.8) | 87 (31.0) | 0.70 | 131 (31.6) |
| Comorbidities, n (%) | ||||
| Diabetes | 18 (13.4) | 28 (10.0) | 0.29 | 46 (11.1) |
| Hypertension | 39 (29.1) | 79 (28.1) | 0.84 | 118 (28.4) |
| Cardiovascular disease | 7 (5.2) | 32 (11.4) | 0.04 | 39 (9.4) |
| Chronic renal insufficiency | 9 (6.7) | 12 (4.3) | 0.29 | 21 (5.1) |
| Cancer | 6 (4.5) | 7 (2.5) | 0.28 | 13 (3.1) |
| Hepatitis B/C virus | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Disease duration | ||||
| Days from symptoms onset to hospitalization, median (IQR) | 7 (3, 13) | 7 (3, 10) | 0.11 | 7 (3, 11) |
| Days from hospitalization to intubation, median (IQR) | 2 (0, 2) | 3 (1, 4) | 0.10 | 3 (1, 4) |
| Sign and symptoms, n (%) | ||||
| Fever, median (IQR) | 37 (36, 37) | 36 (36, 37) | 0.54 | 36 (36, 37) |
| Cough | 40 (29.9) | 98 (34.9) | 0.31 | 138 (33.3) |
| Myalgia | 11 (8.2) | 9 (3.2) | 0.03 | 20 (4.8) |
| Sputum | 4 (3.0) | 6 (2.1) | 0.60 | 10 (2.4) |
| Headache | 10 (7.5) | 16 (5.7) | 0.49 | 26 (6.3) |
| Haemoptysis | 0 (0.0) | 3 (1.1) | 0.23 | 3 (0.7) |
| Systolic pressure, mmHg, median (IQR) | 120 (110, 130) | 125 (110, 135) | 0.14 | 123 (110, 135) |
a
Chi-squared or Mann-Whitney test as appropriate.