Table 3.

Measured biomarkers of the studied groups.

	Severe COVID-19 Group N = 35	Moderate COVID-19 Group N = 45	Control Group N = 40	U	P-value
NEAT1 Expression				1.95	0.051
Median	1626.59	1404.87	2.20	6.26	<0.0012
(Range)	(0.55 - 4225.06)	174.79 - 3448.12.	0.44 - 6.97	7.93	<0.0013
TUG1 Expression				0.10	0.921
Median	623.11	664.15	0.56	7.44	<0.0012
(Range)	3.0 - 1554.18	143.03 - 1530.52	0.12 - 1.57	7.93	<0.0013
CCL2 Expression				6.44	<0.0011
Median	276678.7	17876.56	2.36	7.93	<0.0012
(Range)	2951.78 - 1007200	0.45 - 86210.41	5.01 - 7.84	5.32	<0.0013
TNF-α Expression				1.52	0.131
Median	11.83	7.77	1.35	6.48	<0.0012
(Range)	0.68 - 38	2.21 - 17.19	0 - 3.73	7.52	<0.0013
IL-6 Expression				7.65	<0.0011
Median	37877.43	21.33	0.02	7.93	<0.0012
(Range)	403.66 - 115591.9	0.47 - 310.22	0- 0.25	7.44	<0.0013

U = Mann-Whitney U test

1 = comparing severe and moderate COVID-19 groups

2 = comparing severe COVID-19 group and controls

3 = comparing moderate COVID-19 group and controls