Authors
Andrea Giacomelli, Anna Lisa Ridolfo, Laura Milazzo, Letizia Oreni, Dario Bernacchia, Matteo Siano, Cecilia Bonazzetti, Alice Covizzi, Marco Schiuma, Matteo Passerini, Marco Piscaglia, Massimo Coen, Guido Gubertini, Giuliano Rizzardini, Chiara Cogliati, Anna Maria Brambilla, Riccardo Colombo, Antonio Castelli, Roberto Rech, Agostino Riva, Alessandro Torre, Luca Meroni, Stefano Rusconi, Spinello Antinori, Massimo Galli
Publication date
2020/8/1
Journal
Pharmacological research
Volume
158
Pages
104931
Publisher
Academic Press
Description
Italy was the first European country hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and has the highest number of recorded COVID-19 deaths in Europe.
This prospective cohort study of the correlates of the risk of death in COVID-19 patients was conducted at the Infectious Diseases and Intensive Care units of Luigi Sacco Hospital, Milan, Italy. The clinical characteristics of all the COVID-19 patients hospitalised in the early days of the epidemic (21 February -19 March 2020) were recorded upon admission, and the time-dependent probability of death was evaluated using the Kaplan-Meier method (censored as of 20 April 2020). Cox proportional hazard models were used to assess the factors independently associated with the risk of death.
Forty-eight (20.6 %) of the 233 patients followed up for a median of 40 days (interquartile range 33–47) died during the follow-up. Most were males (69.1 %) and their median age was 61 years …
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