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. 2022 Dec 13;12:1038908. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2022.1038908

Table 1.

Laboratory biomarkers associated with immune system, injury of different organ systems, disease severity and mortality in patients with COVID19.

System Laboratory Biomarkers COVID19 Outcome (Mortality/Severity) Change References(systematic reviews/meta-analysis)
Immune System CRP Mortality &
Severity
(Alnor et al., 2020; Zhang et al., 2020b; Tian et al., 2020; Kermali et al., 2020; Borges Do Nascimento et al., 2020; Elshazli et al., 2020; Walker et al., 2020; Yamada et al., 2020; Huang et al., 2020; Mudatsir et al., 2020; Malik et al., 2021; Iwamura et al., 2021; Hariyanto et al., 2021; Lim et al., 2021; Melo et al., 2021; Chaudhary et al., 2021; Ikeagwulonu et al., 2021; Yitbarek et al., 2021; Mosquera-Sulbaran et al., 2021; Alzahrani and Al-Rabia, 2021; Bhowmik et al., 2022; Cao et al., 2022)
IL4 Severity (Cao et al., 2022)
IL6 Mortality &
Severity
(Kermali et al., 2020; Tian et al., 2020; Li et al., 2020c; Elshazli et al., 2020; Walker et al., 2020; Coomes and Haghbayan, 2020; Mudatsir et al., 2020; Iwamura et al., 2021; Melo et al., 2021; Udomsinprasert et al., 2021; Chaudhary et al., 2021; Zawawi et al., 2021; Liu et al., 2021a; Alzahrani and Al-Rabia, 2021; Luo et al., 2022; Jafrin et al., 2022; Cao et al., 2022)
IL8 Severity (Zawawi et al., 2021; Liu et al., 2021a)
IL10 Mortality &
Severity
(Udomsinprasert et al., 2021; Zawawi et al., 2021; Liu et al., 2021a; Jafrin et al., 2022; Cao et al., 2022)
TNF Severity (Zawawi et al., 2021; Liu et al., 2021a)
C3 Mortality &
Severity
(Zinellu and Mangoni, 2021b)
C4 Mortality &
Severity
(Zinellu and Mangoni, 2021b)
CD3+ T cells N/A (Iwamura et al., 2021)
CD4+ T cells N/A (Iwamura et al., 2021)
aPL Severity (Taha and Samavati, 2021)
IFN-α N/A (Da Silva et al., 2021)
Vitamin D N/A (Munshi et al., 2021)
PCT Mortality &
Severity
(Zheng et al., 2020; Huang et al., 2020; Zare et al., 2020; Malik et al., 2021; Melo et al., 2021; Iwamura et al., 2021; Hariyanto et al., 2021; Ahmed et al., 2021a)
Serum amyloid A Severity (Kermali et al., 2020; Cao et al., 2022)
ESR Severity (Mudatsir et al., 2020; Iwamura et al., 2021)
Prealbumin Mortality &
Severity
(Zinellu and Mangoni, 2021c)
Calprotectin Severity (Udeh et al., 2021)
Presepsin Severity (Ahmed et al., 2021b)
OAS1 N/A (Luo et al., 2022)
Pediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (PMIS) CRP Mortality &
Severity
(Yasuhara et al., 2020; Abrams et al., 2020; Zhao et al., 2021c; Tang et al., 2021)
D-dimer Mortality &
Severity
(Yasuhara et al., 2020; Zhao et al., 2021c; Tang et al., 2021)
PCT Mortality &
Severity
(Huang et al., 2020; Tang et al., 2021)
Lymphocytes count Mortality &
Severity
(Yasuhara et al., 2020; Zhao et al., 2021c; Tang et al., 2021)
Platelet count Mortality &
Severity
(Zhao et al., 2021c)
Neutrophil count Mortality &
Severity
(Zhao et al., 2021c; Tang et al., 2021)
WBC count Severity (Zhao et al., 2021c)
Ferritin Mortality &
Severity
(Zhao et al., 2021c; Tang et al., 2021)
ESR Severity (Zhao et al., 2021c; Tang et al., 2021)
IL6 Severity (Abrams et al., 2020; Tang et al., 2021)
Fibrinogen Severity (Abrams et al., 2020)
BNP Severity (Zhao et al., 2021b)
LDH Mortality &
Severity
(Zhao et al., 2021c)
Hematology WBC count Mortality &
Severity
(Alnor et al., 2020; Yamada et al., 2020; Elshazli et al., 2020; Mudatsir et al., 2020; Xiang et al., 2021b; Chua et al., 2021; Liu et al., 2021a; Suklan et al., 2021; Melo et al., 2021)
Neutrophil count Mortality &
Severity
(Alnor et al., 2020; Elshazli et al., 2020; Chua et al., 2021; Liu et al., 2021a; Lim et al., 2021; Suklan et al., 2021; Melo et al., 2021; Cao et al., 2022)
Lymphocytes count Mortality &
Severity
(Alnor et al., 2020; Kermali et al., 2020; Borges Do Nascimento et al., 2020; Figliozzi et al., 2020; Zhang et al., 2020b; Huang and Pranata, 2020; Suklan et al., 2021; Malik et al., 2021; Xiang et al., 2021b; Iwamura et al., 2021; Lim et al., 2021) (Zhang et al., 2020b; Figliozzi et al., 2020; Malik et al., 2021; Xiang et al., 2021b; Melo et al., 2021) (Alnor et al., 2020; Kermali et al., 2020; Borges Do Nascimento et al., 2020; Huang and Pranata, 2020; Mudatsir et al., 2020; Suklan et al., 2021; Malik et al., 2021; Melo et al., 2021; Iwamura et al., 2021; Cao et al., 2022)
NLR Mortality &
Severity
(Kermali et al., 2020; Li et al., 2020b; Alkhatip et al., 2021; Ulloque-Badaracco et al., 2021b; Simadibrata et al., 2021; Sarkar et al., 2022a; Sarkar et al., 2022b; Bhowmik et al., 2022; Parthasarathi et al., 2022)
Platelet count Mortality &
Severity
(Alnor et al., 2020; Kermali et al., 2020; Terpos et al., 2020; Suklan et al., 2021; Malik et al., 2021; Xiang et al., 2021b; Pranata et al., 2021)
Hemoglobin Severity (Alnor et al., 2020)
Ferritin Mortality &
Severity
(Taneri et al., 2020; Huang et al., 2020; Melo et al., 2021; Chaudhary et al., 2021; Kaushal et al., 2022)
Fibrinogen Severity (Zhang et al., 2020a; Rostami et al., 2021; Chaudhary et al., 2021)
FDPs Severity (Rostami et al., 2021)
D-dimer Mortality &
Severity
(Alnor et al., 2020; Kermali et al., 2020; Tian et al., 2020; Figliozzi et al., 2020; Zheng et al., 2020; Paliogiannis et al., 2020; Elshazli et al., 2020; Terpos et al., 2020; Ji et al., 2020; Zhang et al., 2020a; Rostami and Mansouritorghabeh, 2020; Duz et al., 2020; Simadibrata and Lubis, 2020; Sakka et al., 2020; Lima et al., 2020; Rostami et al., 2021; Malik et al., 2021; Chua et al., 2021; Liu et al., 2021a; Xiang et al., 2021a; Zhao et al., 2021a; Varikasuvu et al., 2021; Hariyanto et al., 2021; Nugroho et al., 2021; Woller et al., 2022)
PT Severity (Elshazli et al., 2020; Terpos et al., 2020; Zhang et al., 2020a; Liu et al., 2021a; Xiang et al., 2021a)
RDW Severity (Lee et al., 2021; Zinellu and Mangoni, 2021a)
ABO N/A (Luo et al., 2022)
Endothelial dysfunction MR-proADM Severity (Lampsas et al., 2021)
E-selectin Severity (Lampsas et al., 2021)
VCAM-1 Severity (Lampsas et al., 2021)
VWF-Ag Severity (Lampsas et al., 2021; Andrianto et al., 2021)
Ang-2 Severity (Lampsas et al., 2021)
T-PA Severity (Andrianto et al., 2021)
PAI-1 Severity (Andrianto et al., 2021)
sTM Severity (Andrianto et al., 2021)
Cardiac Injury Cardiac troponin Mortality & Severity (Kermali et al., 2020; Tian et al., 2020; Vakhshoori et al., 2020b; Toraih et al., 2020; Parohan et al., 2020; Shoar et al., 2020; Rathore et al., 2021; Alzahrani and Al-Rabia, 2021; Wibowo et al., 2021)
TnT Mortality & Severity (Alzahrani and Al-Rabia, 2021)
Tnl Mortality & Severity (Li et al., 2020a; Parohan et al., 2020; Li et al., 2020c; Zheng et al., 2020; Ma et al., 2021; Zhu et al., 2021)
NT-proBNP Mortality & Severity (Li et al., 2020a; Ramadan et al., 2021; Dalia et al., 2021)
BNP Mortality & Severity (Shoar et al., 2020; Rathore et al., 2021)
CK Mortality & Severity (Parohan et al., 2020; Li et al., 2020c; Shoar et al., 2020; Malik et al., 2021; Zhu et al., 2021)
CK-MB Mortality & Severity (Li et al., 2020c; Zhu et al., 2021; Dalia et al., 2021; Alzahrani and Al-Rabia, 2021; Zinellu et al., 2021c)
Myoglobin Mortality & Severity (Parohan et al., 2020; Ma et al., 2021; Zhu et al., 2021)
LDH Mortality & Severity (Alnor et al., 2020; Zhang et al., 2020b; Kermali et al., 2020; Parohan et al., 2020; Li et al., 2020c; Shoar et al., 2020; Zheng et al., 2020; Suklan et al., 2021; Malik et al., 2021; Zhu et al., 2021; Hariyanto et al., 2021; Lim et al., 2021)
IL6 Mortality & Severity (Alzahrani and Al-Rabia, 2021)
CRP Mortality & Severity (Alzahrani and Al-Rabia, 2021)
HBDH Mortality & Severity (Zinellu et al., 2021a)
ApoA1 Mortality & Severity (Ulloque-Badaracco et al., 2021a)
ApoB Severity (Ulloque-Badaracco et al., 2021a)
Liver Injury AST Mortality & Severity (Alnor et al., 2020; Borges Do Nascimento et al., 2020; Toraih et al., 2020; Zheng et al., 2020; Ahmed et al., 2020; Abdulla et al., 2020; Shokri Afra et al., 2020; Aziz et al., 2020b; Suklan et al., 2021; Malik et al., 2021; Kovalic et al., 2021; Ye et al., 2021; Zarifian et al., 2021)
ALT Mortality & Severity (Borges Do Nascimento et al., 2020; Tian et al., 2020; Ahmed et al., 2020; Abdulla et al., 2020; Shokri Afra et al., 2020; Aziz et al., 2020b; Suklan et al., 2021; Malik et al., 2021; Ye et al., 2021; Zarifian et al., 2021)
Albumin Mortality & Severity (Tian et al., 2020; Aziz et al., 2020a; Kovalic et al., 2021; Hariyanto et al., 2021; Ye et al., 2021)
Bilirubin Mortality & Severity (Ahmed et al., 2020; Abdulla et al., 2020; Shokri Afra et al., 2020; Aziz et al., 2020b; Kovalic et al., 2021; Ye et al., 2021; Zarifian et al., 2021)
LDH Mortality & Severity (Alnor et al., 2020; Zhang et al., 2020b; Kermali et al., 2020; Suklan et al., 2021; Malik et al., 2021; Ye et al., 2021)
Kidney Injury Creatinine Mortality & Severity (Zheng et al., 2020; Tian et al., 2020; Malik et al., 2021)
BUN Severity (Vakhshoori et al., 2020a; Tian et al., 2020)
Albumin Mortality & Severity (Tian et al., 2020; Aziz et al., 2020a; Kovalic et al., 2021; Hariyanto et al., 2021; Ye et al., 2021)
Lung Injury KL-6 Severity (Pramana Witarto et al., 2021; Naderi and Rahimzadeh, 2022)

*Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), Point-of-Care (POC), immunoglobulin G (IgG), immunoglobulin M (IgM), immunoglobulin A (IgA), C-reactive protein (CRP), antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL), Type I interferons (IFN-I)-alpha (IFN-α), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), Fibrinogen (fibrin) degradation products (FDPs), interleukin-4 (IL4), interleukin-6 (IL6), interleukin-8 (IL8), interleukin-10 (IL10), tumor necrosis factor (TNF), Creatine kinase (CK), brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), N-terminal proB-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), creatine kinase-myocardial bound (CK-MB), cardiac troponin T (TnT), cardiac troponin I (TnI), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), prothrombin time (PT), red blood cell distribution width (RDW), complement component 3 (C3), complement component 4 (C4), neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), ApoliproteinA1 (ApoA1), ApoliproteinB (ApoB), blood urea nitrogen (BUN), von Willebrand Factor antigen (VWF-Ag), tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA), plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 antigen (PAI-1) antigen, soluble thrombomodulin (sTM), hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase (HBDH), procalcitonin (PCT), Krebs von den Lungen-6 (KL-6), histo-blood group ABO system transferase (ABO), 2’-5’ oligoadenylate synthetase 1 (OAS1), white blood cell (WBC), mid-regional pro-adrenomedullin (MR-proADM), Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule 1 (VCAM-1), Von Willebrand Factor Antigen (VWF-Ag), Angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2), tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA), plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 antigen (PAI-1) antigen, soluble thrombomodulin (sTM). "↑" refers to increased levels of specific biomarkers, while symbol "↓" refers to decreased levels of specific biomarkers listed in the Table 1.