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. 2021 Feb 9;42(5):1665–1673. doi: 10.1007/s10072-020-04978-2

Table 1.

Clinical features and main laboratory findings of patients with COVID-19

Patients with headache
n = 83 (28.9%)
Patients without headache
n = 204 (71.1%)
p

Age (mean ± SD)

Median[min-max]

48.40 ± 15.90

48.00 [20.00–89.00]

46.05 ± 14.87

46.00 [19.00–85.00]

0.236
Gender (women/men) n (%) 35 (42.2%)/48 (57.8%) 92 (45.1%)/12 (54.9%) 0.651
Pulmonary involvement n (%) 63 (75.9%) 69 (33.8%) < 0.001
Previous primary HA n (%) 12 (14.5%) 21 (10.3%) 0.425
Comorbidities

  Hypertension n (%)

  DM n (%)

  CAD n (%)

  Stroke n (%)

  Asthma n (%)

  COPD n (%)

  Obesity n (%)

33 (39.8%) 47 (23.0%) 0.007
14 (16.9%) 16 (7.8%) 0.040
8 (9.6%) 9 (4.4%) 0.154
9 (10.8%) 3 (1.5%) 0.001
8 (9.6%) 10 (4.9%) 0.218
9 (10.8%) 9 (4.4%) 0.077
28 (33.7%) 49 (24.0%) 0.124
Hyposmia n (%) 7 (8.4%) 8 (3.9%) 0.206
Loss of taste n (%) 6 (7.2%) 9 (4.4%) 0.497
Loss of appetite n (%) 45 (54.2%) 28 (13.7%) < 0.001
Loss of weight n (%) 37 (44.6%) 26 (12.7%) < 0.001
Diarrhea n (%) 21 (25.3%) 31 (15.2%) 0.044

IL-6 (mean ± SD)

Median [min-max]

52.50 ± 53.85

26.00 [1.00–214.30]

31.91 ± 29.01

30.70 [0.50–114.10]

0.241

D-dimer (mean ± SD)

Median[min-max]

7.55 ± 5.52

5.52 [0.19–42.30]

1.13 ± 0.99

0.80 [0.10–5.30]

< 0.001

HA headache, DM diabetes mellitus, CAD coronary artery disease, COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease