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Table 1 Clinical characteristics of patient with and without COVID-19

From: The changing pattern of bacterial and fungal respiratory isolates in patients with and without COVID-19 admitted to intensive care unit

Patients characteristics

Overall

COVID-19

Non COVID-19

p value

Number

370

194

176

 

Age, media (m-M)

59 (18–87)

60 (20–83)

57 (18–87)

0.09

Gender

    

 Male, N (%)

277 (74.9)

153 (78.9)

124 (70.5)

0.63

 Female, N (%)

93 (25.1)

41 (21.1)

52 (29.6)

0.63

Time from hospital admission to ICU

6 (± 20)

4 (± 10)

8 (± 23)

0.1

Comorbidities

    

 Chronic heart disease, N (%)

99 (26.8)

32 (16.5)

67 (38.7)

 < 0.001

 Hypertension, N (%)

166 (44.9)

93 (48)

73 (41.5)

0.25

 CKD, N (%)

21 (5.7)

7 (3.6)

14 (8)

0.11

 Chronic liver disease, N (%)

28 (7.6)

6 (3.1)

22 (12.5)

0.006

 Chronic neurological disease, N (%)

39 (10.5)

11 (5.7)

28 (15.9)

0.002

 Cancer, N (%)

26 (7.0)

10 (5.2)

16 (9.1)

0.2

 Immunodefic/hematological/SOT, N (%)

38 (10.3)

22 (11.3)

16 (9.1)

0.59

 Lung disease, N (%)

44 (11.9)

18 (9.3)

26 (14.8)

0.14

 DM, N (%)

67 (18.1)

41 (21.1)

26 (14.8)

0.15

 Obesity, N (%)

61 (16.5)

44 (22.7)

17 (9.7)

0.001

Therapy during ICU stay

    

 Mechanical ventilation, N (%)

345 (93.2)

187 (96.4)

158 (89.8)

0.02

 Haemodyalisis, N (%)

54 (14.6)

39 (20.1)

15 (8.5)

0.003

Immunosoppressive therapy, N (%)

142 (38.4)

120 (61.9)

22 (12.5)

 < 0.001

 Antibiotics/antifungals, N (%)

320 (86.5)

172 (88.7)

148 (84.1)

0.26

LOS in ICU, media (SD)

23 (± 24)

22 (± 20)

25 (± 27)

0.24

Outcome

    

Death in ICU, N (%)

138 (37.3)

69 (35.6)

69 (39.2)

0.54

  1. Differences statistically significant are given in bold
  2. ICU intensive care unit, CKD chronic kidney diseases, SOT solid organ transplantation, LOS length of stay, SD standard deviation