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Table 1 Demographic and clinical presentation of patients with Covid-19 diagnosed during the first month of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

From: Covid-19 in South America: clinical and epidemiological characteristics among 381 patients during the early phase of the pandemic in Santiago, Chile

 

All outpatients N = 293

All inpatients N = 88

p-value

Characteristic

 Age, years

37 (28–45)

49 (39.5–65)

<.001

 Gender, female

153 (52.2)

45 (51.1)

.85

Comorbidities

 Diabetes

5 (1.7)

6 (6.8)

.73

 Hypertension

15 (5.1)

25 (28.4)

<.001

 BMI ε 30

3 (1)

14 (15.9)

.002

 Current smoker

7 (2.4)

6 (6.8)

.055

 Obstructive pulmonary disease

10 (3.4)

6 (6.8)

.17

 Malignancy

3 (1)

3 (3.4)

.14

 Mean CCS (SD)

0.28 (0.7)

1.38 (2.0)

<.001

Symptoms at the time of initial presentation

 Cough

170 (58)

64 (72.7)

.013

 Fever

167 (43.8)

69 (78.4)

<.001

 Odynophagia

126 (43)

35 (39.8)

.59

 Fatigue

91 (31.1)

38 (43.2)

.036

 Anosmia or Ageusia

28 (9.6)

7 (8)

.65

 Chest pain

9 (2.4)

5 (5.7)

.26

 Dyspnea

3 (1.0)

4 (4.5)

.048

  1. Data are median (IQR), n (%), or n/N (%). p values were calculated by Mann-Whitney U test, χ2 test, or Fisher’s exact test, as appropriate. χ2 test comparing all subcategories