1. Clinical features in 52 patients with COVID-19 who have increased leukocyte count: a retrospective analysis
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Yang Zhao, Shaolin Zeng, Tao Wang, Xuhong Ding, Hanxiang Nie, Xiaojun Wu, Zhishui Zheng, Kaochang Zhao, and Ruiyun Li
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Male ,Leukocytosis ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Coronary Disease ,Severity of Illness Index ,Leukocyte Count ,COVID-19 Testing ,Risk Factors ,Leukocytes ,Retrospective analysis ,Mortality rate ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,Hospitalization ,Intensive Care Units ,C-Reactive Protein ,Infectious Diseases ,Hypertension ,Absolute neutrophil count ,Female ,Original Article ,medicine.symptom ,Coronavirus Infections ,Microbiology (medical) ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Critical Illness ,Pneumonia, Viral ,Increased leukocyte count ,Betacoronavirus ,Internal medicine ,Diabetes Mellitus ,medicine ,Humans ,Pandemics ,Aged ,Retrospective Studies ,Mechanical ventilation ,Clinical Laboratory Techniques ,Interleukin-6 ,SARS-CoV-2 ,business.industry ,COVID-19 ,Clinical features ,Mean age ,medicine.disease ,Respiration, Artificial ,Survival Analysis ,Pneumonia ,business ,Biomarkers - Abstract
Recent reports have showed that a proportion of patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) presented elevated leukocyte count. Clinical data about these patients is scarce. We aimed to evaluate the clinical findings of patients with COVID-19 who have increased leukocyte at admission. We retrospectively collected the clinical data on the 52 patients who have increased leukocyte count at admission from the 619 patients with confirmed COVID-19 who had pneumonia with abnormal features on chest CT scan in Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University in Wuhan, China, from February 3 to March 3, 2020. The mean age of the 52 patients with increased leukocyte count was 64.7 (SD 11.4) years, 32 (61.5%) were men and 47 (90.4%) had fever. Compared with the patients with non-increased leukocyte count, the patients with increased leukocyte count were significantly older (P
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- 2020