Novel phenotypes of coronavirus disease: a temperature-based trajectory model

Background Coronavirus disease has heterogeneous clinical features; however, the reasons for the heterogeneity are poorly understood. This study aimed to identify clinical phenotypes according to patients’ temperature trajectory. Method A retrospective review was conducted in five tertiary hospitals in Hubei Province from November 2019 to March 2020. We explored potential temperature-based trajectory phenotypes and assessed patients’ clinical outcomes, inflammatory response, and response to immunotherapy according to phenotypes. Results A total of 1580 patients were included. Four temperature-based trajectory phenotypes were identified: normothermic (Phenotype 1); fever, rapid defervescence (Phenotype 2); gradual fever onset (Phenotype 3); and fever, slow defervescence (Phenotype 4). Compared with Phenotypes 1 and 2, Phenotypes 3 and 4 had a significantly higher C-reactive protein level and neutrophil count and a significantly lower lymphocyte count. After adjusting for confounders, Phenotypes 3 and 4 had higher in-hospital mortality (adjusted odds ratio and 95% confidence interval 2.1, 1.1–4.0; and 3.3, 1.4–8.2, respectively), while Phenotype 2 had similar mortality, compared with Phenotype 1. Corticosteroid use was associated with significantly higher in-hospital mortality in Phenotypes 1 and 2, but not in Phenotypes 3 or 4 (p for interaction < 0.01). A similar trend was observed for gamma-globulin. Conclusions Patients with different temperature-trajectory phenotypes had different inflammatory responses, clinical outcomes, and responses to corticosteroid therapy..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Annals of intensive care - 11(2021), 1 vom: 03. Aug.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Shen, Yanfei [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Dechang [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Xinmei [VerfasserIn]
Cai, Guolong [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Qianghong [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Caibao [VerfasserIn]
Yan, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Jiao [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Corticosteroids
Inflammatory response
Mortality
Temperature

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© The Author(s) 2021

doi:

10.1186/s13613-021-00907-4

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SPR044736924