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. 2021 Dec 27;22:321. doi: 10.1186/s12931-021-01917-3

Table 2.

Propensity matching scoring model (n = 412)

Variables P value
(Before PSM, n = 412)
P value
(After PSM, n = 412)
Model 1 Model 2 Model 3
Age (year) 0.171 0.061 0.056 0.096
Sex (M/F) 0.001 0.516 0.222 0.058
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg) 0.060 0.006 0.001 0.002
Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg) 0.355 0.654 0.59 0.385
Pulse rate (PR, beats/per minute) 0.498 0.98 0.805 0.843
Body Mass Index (BMI, kg/m2) 0.319 0.921 0.059 0.506
Smoking status (n, SD/%)
Smoking index (SI) 0.028 0.306 0.191 0.105
length of stay (LOS) 0.606 0.191 0.222 0.096
Complications
Diabetes mellitus (DM) 0.354 0.608 0.523 0.791
Coronary atherosclerotic heart disease (CHD)  < 0.001 0.072 0.057 0.136
Hypertension 0.008 0.263 0.185 0.263
History of cerebral infarction 0.004 0.056 0.060 0.089
Procalcitonin (ng/mL) 0.752 0.031 0.03 0.067
C-reactive protein (CRP, mg/L) 0.092  < 0.001  < 0.001  < 0.001
Interleukin 6 (IL-6, pg/mL) 0.700 0.123 0.122 0.122
Hemoglobin (g/L) 0.147 0.31 0.287 0.304
White blood cell count (WBC, × 109/mL) 0.013 0.008 0.002 0.006
Red blood cell count (RBC, × 1012 /mL) 0.400 0.035 0.03 0.045
Red cell distribution with (RDW, %)  < 0.001  < 0.001  < 0.001  < 0.001
Mean platelet volume (MPV, fL) 0.065 0.938 0.747 0.872
Fibrinogen degradation products (FDP, μg/mL) 0.499 0.522 0.973 0.94
D-Dimer (DD, ng/mL) 0.743 0.133 0.491 0.205
Albumin (ALB, g/L) 0.513 0.553 0.584 0.454
Abnormal albumin globulin ratio (A/G) 0.091 0.215 0.218 0.207
Triglyceride (TG, mmol/L) 0.410 0.941 0.994 0.861
Total cholesterol (TC, mmol/L) 0.842 0.271 0.196 0.233
High density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C, mmol/L) 0.994 0.115 0.102 0.165
Low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C, mmol/L) 0.841 0.063 0.058 0.052
Total bilirubin (TBIL, μmol/L)  < 0.001 0.028 0.023 0.025
N terminal pro B type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP, pg/ml)  < 0.001  < 0.001  < 0.001  < 0.001

Model 1 matched variables; Sex, age and BMI. Model 2 added SI to model 1. Model 3 Added underlying diseases to model 2 (DM, CHD, hypertension, history of cerebral infarction)