Table 2.

Age and laboratory characteristics of patients with Covid-19, with or without CLD

Variable	Presence of CLD	n	Mean	SD	Mean standard error	t test p value
Age	No	168	69.21	13.523	1.043	0.016
	Yes	168	65.54	14.371	1.109
Leukocytes count	No	168	7827.38	4042.820	311.910	0.715
	Yes	168	7554.17	8795.786	678.610
Neutrophil count	No	168	6054.17	3733.420	288.040	0.015
	Yes	168	5114.29	3274.805	252.657
Lymphocytes count	No	168	1088.10	503.141	38.818	0.117
	Yes	168	1208.93	861.056	66.432
Platelets count	No	168	219,636.90	98,578.303	7605.481	0.022
	Yes	168	195,589.29	92,763.580	7156.866
Creatinine	No	168	1.1911	0.72266	0.05575	0.861
	Yes	168	1.1786	0.58675	0.04527
Sodium	No	168	136.00	4.216	0.325	0.077
	Yes	168	136.86	4.630	0.357
ALT	No	168	54.24	52.953	4.085	0.201
	Yes	168	62.20	60.675	4.681
AST	No	168	56.80	40.490	3.124	0.042
	Yes	168	69.18	67.230	5.187
Total bilirubin	No	166	0.4858	0.24759	0.01922	0.002
	Yes	165	0.8299	1.41176	0.10991
LDH	No	168	403.93	328.265	25.326	0.355
	Yes	164	377.05	176.706	13.798
Albumin	No	112	2.771	0.4844	0.0458	0.236
	Yes	117	2.695	0.4904	0.0453
Ferritin	No	151	1119.046	1029.6065	83.7882	0.181
	Yes	142	1291.279	1167.6990	97.9911
PT	No	160	13.823	2.2625	0.1789	0.031
	Yes	163	15.192	7.6478	0.5990
INR	No	165	1.213	0.2062	0.0160	0.034
	Yes	167	1.340	0.7311	0.0566
aPTT	No	164	28.187	4.4726	0.3492	0.192
	Yes	165	28.894	5.3047	0.4130

CLD chronic liver disease, SD standard deviation, ALT alanine-transaminase, AST aspartate-transaminase, LDH lactate dehydrogenase, PT prothrombin time, INR international normalized ratio, aPTT activated partial thromboplastin time. Significant p values (< 0.05) are highlighted in bold