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. 2022 Jul 15;13:889813. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.889813

Table 5.

Overall comparison of clinical and biological characteristics between the clusters.

Cluster 1 Cluster 2 Cluster 3 Cluster 4 Cluster 5 p-value
Men, n (%) 24 (58.5%) 13 (56.5%) 14 (66.7%) 12 (70.6%) 11 (47.8%) 0.6301
BMI, kg/m2, mean (sd) (n=94) 26.5 (6.3) 28.4 (4.7) 28.6 (5.8) 27.5 (7.2) 27.2 (6.2) 0.7452
CRP, mg/L, median [IQR] (n=99) 41 [18;100] 95 [31;155] 84 [18;131] 55.5 [19.5;121] 62.5 [48;151.5] 0.6413
Mortality, dead, n (%) 0 (0%) 4 (17.4%) 2 (9.5%) 2 (11.8%) 6 (26.1%) 0.0051 cluster 1 against others;
0.0061 clusters 2 and 5 against others
Severe Covid194, n (%) 18 (43.9%) 14 (60.9%) 16 (76.2%) 9 (52.9%) 11 (47.8%) 0.1541
ICU admission, n (%) 11 (26.8%) 8 (34.8%) 12 (57.1%) 5 (29.4%) 5 (21.7%) 0.1211
Oxygen requirement, n (%) 27 (65.8%) 17 (73.9%) 16 (76.2%) 14 (82.3%) 13 (56.5%) 0.4261
Corticosteroid treatment, n (%) 12 (29.3%) 13 (56.2%) 13 (61.9%) 7 (41.2%) 6 (26.1%) 0.0331

1Fisher exact test.

2F-test Anova due to normality distribution.

3Kruskal Wallis test due to non-normality distribution.

4Severe Covid19 defined as: 02>2L/min, ICU admission, LTE, decease.