Table 2.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients enrolled in this study

	Positive COVID‐19 patients n = 20	Negative COVID‐19 patients n = 15
Mean age (years)	57.8	73.4
Sex n (%)
Male	9 (45)	10 (67)
Female	11 (55)	5 (33)
Comorbidity n (%)	9 (45)	15 (100)
Diabetes	2 (22)	0
High blood pressure	6 (66)	11 (73)
Cardiovascular disease	0	11 (73)
Obesity	3 (33)	0
Cancer	3 (33)	6 (40)
Ictus	1 (11)	0
COPD	0	4 (26)
Healthy n (%)	11 (55)	0
Diagnosis at admission
COVID‐19 pneumonia	20 (100)	0
Pneumonia no COVID‐19	0	6 (40)
Cardiovascular disease	0	3 (20)
Ascites	0	1 (6.6)
Diverticulitis	0	1 (6.6)
Pleural effusion	0	2 (13)
Sepsis	0	2 (13)