TABLE 1.
Comorbodities and categorical descreptives of the study population
| Variable | Category | Mortality groups | Intensive Care requirement groups | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Survivors (n = 361) | Non‐Survivors (n = 120) | Sig. | IU (n = 396) | ICU (n = 85) | Sig. | ||||||
| n | % a | n | % a | P | n | % a | n | % a | P | ||
| Sex | Male | 189 | 74.1 | 66 | 25.9 | .615 | 204 | 80.0 | 51 | 20.0 | .155 |
| Female | 172 | 76.1 | 54 | 23.9 | 192 | 85.0 | 34 | 15.0 | |||
| COPD | No | 344 | 75.8 | 110 | 24.2 | .135 | 377 | 83.0 | 77 | 17.0 | .094 |
| Yes | 17 | 63.0 | 10 | 37.0 | 19 | 70.4 | 8 | 29.6 | |||
| Astma | No | 341 | 74.6 | 116 | 25.4 | .336 | 374 | 81.8 | 83 | 18.2 | .219 |
| Yes | 20 | 83.3 | 4 | 16.7 | 22 | 91.7 | 2 | 8.3 | |||
| DM | No | 270 | 75.0 | 90 | 25.0 | .964 | 295 | 81.9 | 65 | 18.1 | .703 |
| Yes | 91 | 75.2 | 30 | 24.8 | 101 | 83.5 | 20 | 16.5 | |||
| HT | No | 248 | 75.8 | 79 | 24.2 | .560 | 266 | 81.3 | 61 | 18.7 | .410 |
| Yes | 113 | 73.4 | 41 | 26.6 | 130 | 84.4 | 24 | 15.6 | |||
| CHF | No | 346 | 76.7 | 105 | 23.3 | .001 | 378 | 83.8 | 73 | 16.2 | .001 |
| Yes | 15 | 50 | 15 | 50 | 18 | 60 | 12 | 40 | |||
| CAD | No | 330 | 75.7 | 106 | 24.3 | .316 | 364 | 83.5 | 72 | 16.5 | .038 |
| Yes | 31 | 68.9 | 14 | 31.1 | 32 | 71.1 | 13 | 28.9 | |||
| CRF | No | 348 | 77.7 | 100 | 22.3 | <.001 | 372 | 83.0 | 76 | 17.0 | .134 |
| Yes | 13 | 39.4 | 20 | 60.6 | 24 | 72.7 | 9 | 27.3 | |||
| Malignancy | No | 350 | 76.3 | 109 | 23.7 | .005 | 378 | 82.4 | 81 | 17.6 | .949 |
| Yes | 11 | 50.0 | 11 | 50.0 | 18 | 81.8 | 4 | 18.2 | |||
| CND | No | 350 | 76.1 | 110 | 23.9 | .014 | 382 | 83.0 | 78 | 17.0 | .054 |
| Yes | 11 | 52.4 | 10 | 47.6 | 14 | 66.7 | 7 | 33.3 | |||
| A &D | No | 351 | 76.8 | 106 | 23.2 | <.001 | 379 | 82.9 | 78 | 17.1 | .130 |
| Yes | 10 | 41.7 | 14 | 58.3 | 17 | 70.8 | 7 | 29.2 | |||
| Dyspnea | No | 225 | 85.9 | 37 | 14.1 | <.001 | 240 | 91.6 | 22 | 8.4 | <.001 |
| Yes | 136 | 62.1 | 83 | 37.9 | 156 | 71.2 | 63 | 28.8 | |||
| CT finding | No | 116 | 96.7 | 4 | 3.3 | <.001 | 120 | 100 | 0 | 0.0 | <.001 |
| Yes | 245 | 67.9 | 116 | 32.1 | 276 | 76.5 | 85 | 23.5 | |||
| UNC | Normal | 354 | 79.4 | 92 | 20.6 | <.001 | 388 | 87 | 58 | 13 | <.001 |
| Altered | 7 | 20 | 28 | 80 | 8 | 22.9 | 27 | 77.1 | |||
Abbreviations: A &D, alzheimer and/or demencia; CAD, coronary artery disease; CHF, congestive heart failure; CND, chronic neurological disease; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; CRF, chronic renal failure; CT, computed tomography; DM, diabetes mellitus; HT, hypertension; ICU, intensive care unit; IU, inpatient unit; Sig, asymptotic 2‐sided significance between groups with chi‐square test; UNC, unconsciousness.
a
The percentages of patients falling into groups according to the variables were calculated as the percentage of the rows.