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. 2021 Feb 4:1–14. doi: 10.1080/03007995.2021.1876005

Table 4.

Risk factors associated with in-hospital aggravation.

  c-Statistic OR (95% CI) p
CRP (per 1 mg/L increase) 0.833 1.053 (1.033–1.072) <.001**
Procalcitonin (per 1 ng/L increase) 0.799 1.008 (1.004–1.013) <.001**
Age (per 10 years) 0.786 2.043 (1.588–2.628) <.001**
Albumin (per 5 g/L increase) 0.782 0.291 (0.181–0.466) <.001**
Lymphocyte count (per 1 × 109/L increase) 0.721 0.202 (0.096–0.429) <.001**
AST (per 10 U/L increase) 0.692 1.513 (1.215–1.885) <.001**
Myalgia 0.687 4.820 (2.422–9.589) <.001**
Temperature (per 1 °C increase) 0.658 1.904 (1.310–2.769) .001*
Systolic blood pressure (per 10 mmHg increase) 0.653 1.393 (1.151–1.687) .001*
HCO3 (per 1 mmol/L increase) 0.630 0.787 (0.696–0.890) <.001**
Platelet count (per 1 × 109/L increase) 0.618 0.993 (0.987–0.999) .021*
APTT (per 1 s increase) 0.613 1.094 (1.017–1.176) .015*
RBC (per 1 × 1012/L increase) 0.626 0.407 (0.219–0.758) .005*
Hypertension 0.610 3.22 (1.586–6.537) .001*
ALT (per 10 U/L increase) 0.600 1.165 (1.008–1.346) .039 *
Direct bilirubin (per 1 μmol/L increase) 0.605 1.137 (1.021–1.267) .019*
Creatinine (per 1 μmol/L increase) 0.587 1.019 (1.008–1.030) .001*
CCB 0.561 2.544 (1.104–5.864) .028*
ACEI/ARB 0.550 2.595 (1.035–6.502) .042*
Diabetes 0.545 3.402 (1.145–10.103) .027*
Metformin 0.532 3.961 (1.020–15.368) .047*

Abbreviations. OR, Odds ratio; AST, Aspartate transaminase ; ALT, Alanine aminotransferase; ALB, Albumin; HCO3, Bicarbonate concentration; APTT, Activated partial thromboplastin time.

*p ≤ .05; **p ≤ .001.