Analysis of the predictive factors for a critical illness of COVID-19 during treatment - relationship between serum zinc level and critical illness of COVID-19

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OBJECTIVES: Because most severely ill patients with COVID-19 in our hospital showed zinc deficiency, we aimed to examine the relationship between the patient's serum zinc level and severe cases of COVID-19.

METHODS: Serum zinc <70 μg/dL was defined as the criterion for hypozincemia, and patients continuously with serum zinc <70 μg/dL were classified in the hypozincemia cohort. To evaluate whether hypozincemia could be a predictive factor for a critical illness of COVID-19, we performed a multivariate analysis by employing logistic regression analysis.

RESULTS: Prolonged hypozincemia was found to be a risk factor for a severe case of COVID-19. In evaluating the relationship between the serum zinc level and severity of patients with COVID-19 by multivariate logistic regression analysis, critical illness can be predicted through the sensitivity and false specificity of a ROC curve with an error rate of 10.3% and AUC of 94.2% by only two factors: serum zinc value (P = 0.020) and LDH value (P = 0.026).

CONCLUSIONS: Proper management of the prediction results in this study can contribute to establishing and maintaining a safe medical system, taking the arrival of the second wave, and the spread of COVID-19 in the future into consideration.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:100

Enthalten in:

International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases - 100(2020) vom: 08. Nov., Seite 230-236

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yasui, Yukako [VerfasserIn]
Yasui, Hiroyuki [VerfasserIn]
Suzuki, Kumiko [VerfasserIn]
Saitou, Takako [VerfasserIn]
Yamamoto, Yoshiki [VerfasserIn]
Ishizaka, Toshihiko [VerfasserIn]
Nishida, Kouji [VerfasserIn]
Yoshihara, Shingo [VerfasserIn]
Gohma, Iwao [VerfasserIn]
Ogawa, Yoshihiko [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Critical illness
J41CSQ7QDS
Japan
Journal Article
Logistic regression analysis
Predictive factors
Serum zinc
Zinc

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Date Completed 10.12.2020

Date Revised 10.06.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ijid.2020.09.008

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM314832483