Cardiac injury is associated with inflammation in geriatric COVID-19 patients.
J Clin Lab Anal
; 35(1): e23654, 2021 Jan.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-932443
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Geriatric patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are at high risk of developing cardiac injury. Identifying the factors that affect high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I may indicate the cause of cardiac injury in elderly patients, and this could hopefully assist in protecting heart function in this patient population.METHODS:
One hundred and eighty inpatients who were admitted for COVID-19 were screened. Patients older than 60 years were included in this study, and the clinical characteristics and laboratory results of the cohort were analyzed. The correlation between cardiac injury and clinical/laboratory variables was statistically analyzed, and further logistic regression was performed to determine how these variables influence cardiac injury in geriatric patients.RESULTS:
Age (p < 0.001) significantly correlated with cardiac injury, whereas sex (p = 0.372) and coexisting diseases did not. Rising procalcitonin (p = 0.001), interleukin-2 receptor (p < 0.001), interleukin 6 (p = 0.001), interleukin 10 (p < 0.001), tumor necrosis factor α (p = 0.001), high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (p = 0.001), D-dimer (p < 0.001), white blood cells (p < 0.001), neutrophils (p = 0.001), declining lymphocytes (p < 0.001), and natural killer cells (p = 0.005) were associated with cardiac injury and showed predictive ability in the multivariate logistic regression.CONCLUSION:
Our results suggest that age and inflammatory factors influence cardiac injury in elderly patients. Interfering with inflammation in this patient population may potentially confer cardiac protection.Keywords
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
COVID-19
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Cardiomyopathies
Type of study:
Cohort study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Aged
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
English
Journal:
J Clin Lab Anal
Journal subject:
Laboratory Techniques and procedures
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Jcla.23654
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