Table 1.
Sociodemographic and comorbid information of study groups according to positive CAST results.
|
COVID-19 patients Mean (SD) or # (%) |
Healthcare workers (HCW) Mean (SD) or # (%) |
Healthy voluntary donors (HD) Median (SD) or # (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variables |
Total participants (n = 96) |
CAST Positive (n = 65) |
Total participants (n = 351) |
CAST Positive (n = 45) |
Total participants (n = 255) |
CAST Positive (n = 34) |
| Age | 54.9 (15.7) | 53.1 (14.5) | 39.5 (11.5) | 41.1 (11.3) | 73.2 (11.1) | 35.5 (10.3) |
| <20 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 7 (2.7%) | 1 (2.9%) |
| 20–39 | 16 (16.7%) | 10 (15.4%) | 198 (56.4%) | 22 (48.9%) | 141 (55.3%) | 22 (64.7%) |
| 40–59 | 44 (45.8%) | 35 (53.8%) | 137 (39.0%) | 19 (42.2%) | 100 (39.2%) | 11 (32.3%) |
| 60–79 | 31 (32.3%) | 17 (26.1%) | 19 (5.4%) | 4 (8.9%) | 7 (2.7%) | 0 (0%) |
| >80 | 5 (5.2%) | 3 (4.6%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| Sex | ||||||
| Male | 64 (66.7%) | 46 (70.8%) | 113 (32.3%) | 10 (22.2%) | 181 (71.0%) | 23 (67.6%) |
| Female | 32 (33.3%) | 19 (29.2%) | 238 (67.8%) | 35 (77.7%) | 74 (29.0 %) | 11 (32.4%) |
| COVID-19 contact | ||||||
| No contact | 27 (29.0%) | 15 (23.1%) | 52 (14.8%) | 5 (11.1%) | 222 (87.0%) | 24 (70.6%) |
| Contact | 34 (36.6%) | 26 (40.0%) | 256 (72.9%) | 34 (75.6%) | 20 (7.8%) | 7 (20.6%) |
| Doesn't know | 32 (34.4%) | 23 (35.4%) | 43 (12.2%) | 6 (13.3%) | 13 (5.1%) | 3 (8.8%) |
| Chronic diseases | ||||||
| Hypertension | 46 (47.9%) | 33 (50.8%) | 55 (15.7%) | 6 (13.3%) | 15 (5.9%) | 1 (2.9%) |
| Renal failure | 13 (13.5%) | 6 (9.2%) | 1 (0.3%) | 1 (2.2%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| Respiratory insufficiency | 3 (3.1%) | 1 (1.5%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| Cardiac insufficiency | 3 (3.1%) | 2 (3.1%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| Cancer | 5 (5.2%) | 2 (3.1%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| Diabetes | 29 (30.2%) | 21 (32.3%) | 18 (5.1%) | 2 (4.4%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| Asthma | 1 (1.0%) | 1 (1.5%) | 11 (3.1%) | 4 (8.9%) | 7 (0%) | 1 (2.9%) |
| Othera | 7 (7.3%) | 6 (9.2%) | 23 (6.5%) | 3 (6.7%) | 5 (0%) | 2 (5.8%) |
a
other chronic diseases reported by participants were dyslipidemia and thyroid disease. COVID-19 contact refers to those participants that had contact with a confirmed COVID-19 case in their household and/or during daily activities at work in a healthcare facility.