EVALUATING LABORATORY PARAMETERS OF COVID-19 CASES WITH UNDERLYING CHRONIC DISEASES
Objective: COVID-19 infection caused by the SARS-CoV-2 which was initially detected in China during the last days of 2019 has spread to the whole world in a short period of time causing a pandemic with devastating results. In performing this study, we aimed to reveal the differences in laboratory fi...
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Published in | İstanbul Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi Vol. 84; no. 2; pp. 158 - 164 |
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Main Authors | , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
İstanbul Üniversitesi Yayınları
25.04.2021
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Summary: | Objective: COVID-19 infection caused by the SARS-CoV-2
which was initially detected in China during the last days of 2019
has spread to the whole world in a short period of time causing
a pandemic with devastating results. In performing this study,
we aimed to reveal the differences in laboratory findings of
COVID-19 cases accompanied by chronic diseases compared to
the cases without any pre-existing medical condition.
Methods: This is a retrospective cross-sectional study and consists
of 226 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 who applied
to health institutions in Bolu, Turkey between 11.03.2020 and
26.05.2020.
Results: The mean age of the patients included in the study was
61.95±16.82 (min:32-max:93), 126 (55.8%) of the patients were
women and 100 (44.2%) were men. Seventy-five (33.2%) had at
least one chronic disease. The most prevalent comorbid diseases
in our patients were found to be hypertension (15.9%), chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (14.6%) and diabetes mellitus
(9.7%). Findings such as leukocytosis, basophilia and neutrophilia,
elevated CRP, elevated D-DIMER and elevated LDH, which
are relatively common in COVID-19 cases, were more extensive
in cases accompanied by underlying diseases.
Conclusion: Impaired laboratory findings of COVID-19 patients
with concomitant chronic diseases are more severe than the
group without additional disease. We recommend that there
can be more studies in which all parameters that may affect the
results are evaluated. |
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ISSN: | 1305-6441 1305-6441 |
DOI: | 10.26650/IUITFD.2020.0101 |