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Table 1 Baseline characteristics stratified by intensive care unit admission or all-cause mortality status

From: Age, sex, and comorbidities predict ICU admission or mortality in cases with SARS-CoV2 infection: a population-based cohort study

Characteristic

n (%) or median (IQR)

Overall (n = 18,647)

ICU or deceased (n = 687)

No ICU and survived (n = 17,960)

P*

Age (years)

50 (36–66)

80 (69–87)

49 (35–64)

< 0.001

Sex (male)

7701 (41.3%)

376 (54.7%)

7325 (40.8%)

< 0.001

Number of comorbidities

   

< 0.001

 None

15,651 (83.9%)

298 (43.4%)

15,353 (85.5%)

 

 1

2213 (11.9%)

233 (33.9%)

1980 (11.0%)

 

 2

600 (3.2%)

103 (15.0%)

497 (2.8%)

 

  ≥ 3

183 (1.0%)

53 (7.7%)

130 (0.7%)

 

Types of comorbidities

 Diabetes mellitus

1056 (5.7%)

128 (18.6%)

928 (5.2%)

< 0.001

 Respiratory

841 (4.5%)

94 (13.7%)

747 (4.2%)

< 0.001

 Neurological/muscular

730 (3.9%)

136 (19.8%)

594 (3.3%)

< 0.001

 Malignancy

568 (3.0%)

63 (9.2%)

505 (2.8%)

< 0.001

 Cardiovascular/kidney

410 (2.2%)

131 (19.1%)

279 (1.6%)

< 0.001

 Hematological

201 (1.1%)

35 (5.1%)

166 (0.9%)

< 0.001

 Liver

102 (0.5%)

11 (1.6%)

91 (0.5%)

< 0.001

 HIV infection

99 (0.5%)

13 (1.9%)

86 (0.5%)

< 0.001

Hospital admission

2952 (15.8%)

561 (81.7%)

2391 (13.3%)

< 0.001

Time from symptoms onset to hospital admission (days) (n = 1910)

4 (2–7)

4 (2–8)

4 (2–7)

0.37

Follow-up (days) (n = 14,470)

27 (19–33)

27 (20–34)

27 (19–33)

0.13

  1. IQR interquartile range, HIV human immunodeficiency virus, ICU intensive care unit
  2. *Chi-square (categorical variables) or Mann-Whitney (continuous variables) tests (α = 0.05)