China
Retrospective cohort study
Medical records
201
Patients aged 21 to 83 years with confirmed COVID-19 pneumonia hospitalized at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, China.
All patients were diagnosed with COVID-19 pneumonia according to World Health Organization interim guidance. According tohospitaldata, patients were admitted from December 25, 2019, to January 26, 2020.
0
COVID-19 (death)
84
Development of ARDS and death among those with ARDS. World Health Organization interim guidance was used to define ARDS.
Laboratory Findings
AST
none
Normal
Abnormal at admission
Hazard ratio
0.990 (0.980-1.010)
No
Bivariate Cox proportional hazard ratio (HR) models were used to determine HRs and 95% CIs between individual factors on the development of ARDS or progression from ARDS to death.
Average
Yes