Association between lung injury and cytokine profile in COVID-19 pneumonia

Abstract Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a systemic disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the association between lung injury and cytokine profile in COVID-19 pneumonia.Methods: This retrospective study was conducted in COVID-19 patients. Demographic characteristics, symptoms, signs, underlying diseases, and laboratory data were collected. The patients were divided into COVID-19 with pneumonia and without pneumonia. CT severity score and PaO2/FiO2 ratio and were used to assess lung injury.Results: 106 patients with 12 COVID-19 without pneumonia and 94 COVID-19 with pneumonia were included. Compared with COVID-19 without pneumonia, COVID-19 with pneumonia had significant higher serum interleukin (IL)-2R, IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α. Correlation analysis showed that CT severity score and PaO2/FiO2 were significantly correlated with age, presence of any coexisting disorder, lymphocyte count, procalcitonin, IL-2R, and IL-6. In multivariate analysis, log IL6 was only independent explanatory variables for CT severity score (β=0.397, p<0.001) and PaO2/FiO2 (β=-0.434, p=0.003).Conclusions: Elevation of circulating cytokines was significantly associated with presence of pneumonia in COVID-19 and the severity of lung injury in COVID-19 pneumonia. Circulating IL-6 independently predicted the severity of lung injury in COVID-19 pneumonia..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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ResearchSquare.com - (2022) vom: 28. Juli Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2022

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chen, Li-da [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Zhen-Yu [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Xiao-Jie [VerfasserIn]
Cai, Yu-Qing [VerfasserIn]
Yao, Weng-Zhen [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Ming-Hui [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Qiu-Fen [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Xiao-Bin [VerfasserIn]

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Biology

doi:

10.21203/rs.3.rs-39142/v1

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XRA034550429