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The factors predicting pneumonia in covid-19 patients: Preliminary results from a university hospital in Turkey
Background/aim: Pneumonia is the most serious clinical presentation of
COVID-19. This study aimed to determine the demographic, clinical, and
laboratory findings that can properly predict COVID-19 pneumonia.
Materials and methods: This study was conducted in the Gazi University
hospital. All hospitalized patients with confirmed and suspected
SARS-CoV-2 infection between 16 March 2020 and 30 April 2020 were
analyzed retrospectively. COVID-19 patients were separated into two
groups, pneumonia and nonpneumonia, and then compared to determine
predicting factors for COVID-19 pneumonia. Variables that had a P-value
of less than 0.20 and were not correlated with each other were included
in the logistic regression model.
Results: Of the 247 patients included in the study 58\% were female, and
the median age was 40. COVID-19 was confirmed in 70.9\% of these
patients. Among the confirmed COVID-19 cases, 21.4\% had pneumonia. In
the multivariate analysis male sex (P = 0.028), hypertension (P =
0.022), and shortness of breath on hospital admission (P = 0.025) were
significant factors predicting COVID-19 pneumonia.
Conclusion: Shortness of breath, male sex, and hypertension were
significant for predicting COVID-19 pneumonia on admission. Patients
with these factors should be evaluated more carefully for diagnostic
procedures, such as thorax CT