Table 3.
The relationship between the initial symptoms and prognostic markers in Covid-19 patients.
| Admission to ICU n (%) |
Mortality n (%) |
Length of hospital stay n (%) |
|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variables | Yes (n = 46) |
No (n = 1.460) |
p | Yes (n = 24) |
No (n = 1.482) |
p | <14 (n = 992) |
≥15 (n = 514) |
p |
| Cough | 41 (89.1) | 1314 (90.0) | 0.847 | 21 (87.5) | 1334 (90.0) | 0.684 | 910 (91.7) | 445 (86.6) | 0.002 |
| Fever | 6 (13.1) | 69 (4.7) | 0.011 | 4 (16.7) | 71 (4.8) | 0.008 | 23 (2.3) | 52 (10.1) | <0.001 |
| Shortness of breath | 5 (10.9) | 114 (7.8) | 0.419 | 2 (8.3) | 117 (7.9) | 0.937 | 83 (8.4) | 36 (7.0) | 0.353 |
| Pain | 3 (6.5) | 22 (1.5) | 0.009 | 0 (0.0) | 25 (1.7) | 0.521 | 9 (0.9) | 16 (3.1) | 0.001 |
| Malaise | 13 (28.3) | 9 (0.6) | <0.001 | 13 (54.2) | 9 (0.6) | <0.001 | 10 (1.0) | 12 (2.3) | 0.042 |
| Loss of smell and taste | 3 (6.5) | 10 (0.7) | <0.001 | 1 (4.2) | 12 (0.8) | 0.078 | 7 (0.7) | 6 (1.2) | 0.358 |
| Diarrhea | 1 (2.2) | 10 (0.7) | 0.243 | 1 (4.2) | 10 (0.7) | 0.046 | 3 (0.3) | 8 (1.6) | 0.007 |
| Nausea | 1 (2.2) | 10 (0.7) | 0.243 | 1 (4.2) | 10 (0.7) | 0.046 | 6 (0.6) | 5 (0.9) | 0.427 |
| Vomiting | 0 (0.0) | 8 (0.6) | 0.615 | 0 (0.0) | 8 (0.5) | 0.718 | 6 (0.6) | 2 (0.4) | 0.585 |
| Expectorationa | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.1) | 0.802 | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.1) | 0.857 | 1 (0.1) | 1 (0.2) | 0.636 |
Chi-Square test.
a
Have expected count less than 5.