External validation of unsupervised COVID-19 clinical phenotypes and their prognostic impact

BACKGROUND: Hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can be classified into different clinical phenotypes based on their demographic, clinical, radiology, and laboratory features. We aimed to validate in an external cohort of hospitalized COVID-19 patients the prognostic value of a previously described phenotyping system (FEN-COVID-19) and to assess the reproducibility of phenotypes development as a secondary analysis.

METHODS: Patients were classified in phenotypes A, B or C according to the severity of oxygenation impairment, inflammatory response, hemodynamic and laboratory tests according to the FEN-COVID-19 method.

RESULTS: Overall, 992 patients were included in the study, and 181 (18%), 757 (76%) and 54 (6%) of them were assigned to the FEN-COVID-19 phenotypes A, B, and C, respectively. An association with mortality was observed for phenotype C vs. A (hazard ratio [HR] 3.10, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.81-5.30, p < 0.001) and for phenotype C vs. B (HR 2.20, 95% CI 1.50-3.23, p < 0.001). A non-statistically significant trend towards higher mortality was also observed for phenotype B vs. A (HR 1.41; 95% CI 0.92-2.15, p = 0.115). By means of cluster analysis, three different phenotypes were also identified in our cohort, with an overall similar gradient in terms of prognostic impact to that observed when patients were assigned to FEN-COVID-19 phenotypes.

CONCLUSIONS: The prognostic impact of FEN-COVID-19 phenotypes was confirmed in our external cohort, although with less difference in mortality between phenotypes A and B than in the original study.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:55

Enthalten in:

Annals of medicine - 55(2023), 1 vom: 31. Dez., Seite 2195204

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Giacobbe, Daniele Roberto [VerfasserIn]
Di Maria, Emilio [VerfasserIn]
Tagliafico, Alberto Stefano [VerfasserIn]
Bavastro, Martina [VerfasserIn]
Trombetta, Carlo Simone [VerfasserIn]
Marelli, Cristina [VerfasserIn]
Di Meco, Gabriele [VerfasserIn]
Cattardico, Greta [VerfasserIn]
Mora, Sara [VerfasserIn]
Signori, Alessio [VerfasserIn]
Vena, Antonio [VerfasserIn]
Mikulska, Malgorzata [VerfasserIn]
Dentone, Chiara [VerfasserIn]
Bruzzone, Bianca [VerfasserIn]
Bignotti, Bianca [VerfasserIn]
Orsi, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Robba, Chiara [VerfasserIn]
Ball, Lorenzo [VerfasserIn]
Brunetti, Iole [VerfasserIn]
Battaglini, Denise [VerfasserIn]
Di Biagio, Antonio [VerfasserIn]
Sormani, Maria Pia [VerfasserIn]
Pelosi, Paolo [VerfasserIn]
Giacomini, Mauro [VerfasserIn]
Icardi, Giancarlo [VerfasserIn]
Bassetti, Matteo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
External validation
Journal Article
Pandemic
Phenotypes
Prognosis
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
SARS-CoV-2
Unsupervised clustering

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Date Completed 14.04.2023

Date Revised 22.04.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/07853890.2023.2195204

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM355566087