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Table 1 Influenza infection status and baseline characteristics at ICU admission

From: Influenza and associated co-infections in critically ill immunosuppressed patients

Baseline characteristics

No infection (n = 638)

Infection other than influenza (n = 820)

Influenza alone (n = 95)

Influenza co-infection (n = 58)

P valueb

Age (years), median [IQR]

63 [54–71]

63 [55–71]

65 [54–72]

64 [52–70]

0.80

Gender, male

351 (55)

512 (63)

59 (63)

32 (56)

0.04

Obesitya

108 (17)

151 (18)

21 (22)

12 (21)

0.21

Underlying disease

 Hematological disease

311 (49)

436 (53)

60 (63)

30 (51)

0.05

 Solid tumor

252 (39)

285 (35)

18 (19)

12 (21)

< 0.001

 Solid organ transplantation

51 (9)

75 (10)

7 (8)

9 (16)

0.4

 Systemic disease or other ID

102 (16)

133 (16)

25 (26)

18 (31)

0.002

Disease status at ICU admission

 Newly diagnosed

161 (36)

154 (27)

12 (17)

7 (20)

0.0004

 Remission

67 (15)

82 (14)

15 (21)

8 (23)

 No remission

62 (14)

68 (12)

3 (4)

6 (17)

Allogeneic stem cell transplant

56 (9)

82 (10)

9 (9)

5 (9)

0.03

ECOGc ≥ 2 (severely disabled or bedridden)

210 (33)

299 (36)

36 (38)

23 (40)

0.15

Comorbidities

 Cardiac

141 (24)

167 (22)

16 (18)

15 (27)

0.43

 COPD

103 (17)

123 (15)

14 (15)

7 (12)

0.80

 Kidney

88 (14)

117 (15)

16 (18)

10 (17)

0.75

 Diabetes

108 (17)

161 (20)

21 (22)

14 (25)

0.30

 Alcohol use disorder

63 (10)

76 (10)

5 (5)

4 (7)

0.48

 Tobacco use

199 (33)

228 (29)

21 (23)

12 (21)

0.08

Duration of symptoms before ICU admission (days), median [IQR]

1 [0–4]

1 [0–3]

2 [1–7]

1.5 [1–4]

< 0.001

Admission from emergency department

208 (33)

256 (32)

41 (43)

19 (33)

0.17

Neutropenia at admission

66 (11)

153 (20)

20 (21)

12 (21)

< 0.001

  1. Data are presented as median [IQR] or N (%)
  2. aObesity grade I, II and extreme obesity
  3. bChi-squared test of association with three degrees of freedom
  4. cEastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status score