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Mortality in ICU COVID-19 Patients Is Associated with Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR): Utility of NLR as a Promising Immunohematological Marker.
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*Antigen-antibody reactions
*Biomarkers
*Intensive care units
*COVID-19
*Critically ill
*Cross-sectional method
*Patients
*Mann Whitney U Test
*Hospital admission & discharge
*Neutrophil lymphocyte ratio
*Treatment effectiveness
*Descriptive statistics
*Logistic regression analysis
*Receiver operating characteristic curves
*Data analysis software
*Odds ratio
*Polymerase chain reaction
*Computed tomography
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1687-708X
Abstract
Background. Achieving a suitable medical laboratory index is very important for the prediction of clinical outcome of COVID-19 patients hospitalized to the intensive care unit (ICU). The correlation between neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and unfavorable outcome of COVID-19 patients hospitalized to ICU was the aim of this study. Methods. We evaluated a cross-sectional study of 312 COVID-19 patients who were hospitalized to the ICU (confirmed by PCR and CT-Scan), in Babol city, Mazandaran province. WBC, RBC, lymphocyte, neutrophil, monocyte, platelet count, NLR, C-reactive protein (CRP), ESR, MCV, MHC, and other factors were evaluated. Results. Our findings indicated that all patients aged 56 to 69 years with COVID-19 had a significant difference (P < 0.05) in neu, lymph, PLT count, NLR, ESR, Hb, and CRP. Also, NLR was significantly (P < 0.05) correlated with the death or discharge of the ICU hospitalized patients. The cut-off of NLR was 7.02 and the mean of NLR was 11.3 ± 10.93 and 5.8 ± 7.45 in death and discharge COVID-19 patients hospitalized to ICU, respectively. ROC curve indicated that, for NLR, the area under curve was 0.76. Conclusions. Our findings showed that NLR can be utilized as a clinical laboratory predictive parameter for mortality of COVID-19 patients admitted to ICU. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]