TABLE 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with COVID-19 having accepted serologic tests
| Characteristic | No. (%) of patients |
P a | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All patients | Asymptomatic type | Mild type | Normal type | Severe/critical type | ||
| Total | 284 (100.00) | 91 (32.04) | 58 (20.42) | 126 (44.37) | 9 (3.17) | |
| Gender | 0.332 | |||||
| Male | 138 (48.59) | 39 (42.86) | 28 (48.28) | 68 (53.97) | 3 (33.33) | |
| Female | 146 (51.41) | 52 (57.14) | 30 (51.72) | 58 (46.03) | 6 (66.67) | |
| Age (mean ± SD) | 46.72 ± 17.09 | 42.94 ± 18.21 | 51.99 ± 16.44 | 45.95 ± 15.70 | 61.72 ± 14.04 | 0.001b |
| Age (yr) | 0.001b | |||||
| <10 | 4 (1.41) | 3 (3.30) | 0 (0.00) | 1 (0.79) | 0 (0.00) | |
| 10–20 | 7 (2.46) | 6 (6.59) | 0 (0.00) | 1 (0.79) | 0 (0.00) | |
| 20–60 | 210 (73.94) | 63 (69.23) | 40 (68.97) | 104 (82.54) | 3 (33.33) | |
| ≥60 | 63 (22.18) | 19 (20.88) | 18 (31.03) | 20 (15.87) | 6 (66.67) | |
| Chest CT performance at follow-up, n = 283 | ||||||
| Nodules | 74 (26.15) | 17 (18.89) | 16 (27.59) | 40 (31.75) | 1 (11.11) | 0.136 |
| Cysts | 8 (2.83) | 1 (1.11) | 5 (8.62) | 2 (1.59) | 0 (0.00) | 0.063 |
| Fibrosis | 42 (14.84) | 10 (11.11) | 15 (25.86) | 15 (11.90) | 2 (22.22) | 0.048b |
| Calcification | 22 (7.77) | 4 (4.44) | 8 (13.79) | 8 (6.35) | 2 (22.22) | 0.055 |
| Ground-glass opacities | 21 (7.42) | 5 (5.56) | 7 (12.07) | 8 (6.35) | 1 (11.11) | 0.362 |
| Patchy shadows | 35 (12.37) | 8 (8.89) | 9 (15.52) | 15 (11.90) | 3 (33.33) | 0.148 |
| Pleural effusion | 1 (0.35) | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) | 1 (0.79) | 0 (0.00) | 1.000 |
| Pleural thickening | 30 (10.60) | 9 (10.00) | 8 (13.79) | 12 (9.52) | 1 (11.11) | 0.794 |
| Typical chest CT characteristics of COVID-19c | 54 (19.08) | 12 (13.33) | 15 (25.86) | 23 (18.25) | 4 (44.44) | 0.054 |
| ICU when hospitalized | 8 (2.82) | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) | 8 (88.89) | <0.001b |
| ARDS when hospitalized | 2 (0.70) | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) | 2 (22.22) | 0.001b |
| Other complications when hospitalized | 5 (1.76) | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) | 5 (3.97) | 0 (0.00) | 0.144 |
a
Chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test as appropriate.
b
P < 0.05 represents significant difference.
c
Typical chest CT characteristics of COVID-19 included ground-glass opacities and patchy shadows.