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. 2021 Dec 9;58(6):2004474. doi: 10.1183/13993003.04474-2020

TABLE 3.

Respiratory morbidity, need for intensive care and mortality of patients hospitalised in France for COVID-19 (1 March 2020 to 30 April 2020) according to presence of chronic respiratory disease (CRD)

CRD No CRD p-value
Patients 14 351 75 179
Pulmonary embolism 590 (4.11)# 2496 (3.32) <0.0001
Respiratory bacterial co-infection 1841 (12.83)# 5962 (7.93) <0.0001
Pneumocystis pneumonia 0 (0.00) 3 (0.00) 1.0000
Aspergillosis pneumonia 80 (0.56)# 130 (0.17) <0.0001
Pleural empyema 19 (0.13)# 53 (0.07) 0.0165
Lung abscess 28 (0.20)# 75 (0.10) 0.0020
Pneumothorax 123 (0.86)# 251 (0.33) <0.0001
Acute respiratory failure 5387 (37.54)# 18 930 (25.18) <0.0001
ICU 2985 (20.80)# 12 119 (16.12) <0.0001
In-hospital death 3363 (23.43)# 11 222 (14.93) <0.0001

Data are presented as n or n (%). ICU: intensive care unit. #: significantly increased prevalence (p<0.05).