On-admission SARS-CoV-2 RNAemia as a single potent predictive marker of critical condition development and mortality in COVID-19

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 16; no. 7; p. e0254640
• Main Authors: Miki, Shoji, Sasaki, Hiroaki, Horiuchi, Hiroshi, Miyata, Nobuyuki, Yoshimura, Yukihiro, Miyazaki, Kazuhito, Matsumura, Takayuki, Takahashi, Yoshimasa, Suzuki, Tadaki, Matano, Tetsuro, Kawana-Tachikawa, Ai, Tachikawa, Natsuo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco Public Library of Science 13.07.2021; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; AIDS; Analysis; Biological markers; Biology and life sciences; C-reactive protein; Confidence intervals; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 vaccines; Dimers; Evaluation; Health risks; Hospitals; Illnesses; Infections; Infectious diseases; Japan; Lymphocytes; Markers; Medicine and Health Sciences; Mortality; Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome; Multivariate analysis; Pandemics; Patients; Physical Sciences; Plasma; Public health; Research and Analysis Methods; Sea level; Severe acute respiratory syndrome; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Statistical analysis; Japan

This study aimed to clarify how SARS-CoV-2 RNAemia is related to COVID-19 critical condition development and mortality in comparison with other predictive markers and scoring systems. This is a retrospective cohort study conducted at Yokohama Municipal Citizen's Hospital and National Institute...