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Linear regression analysis showing the predictors of mortality in COVID-19.

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Infectious diseases
Medical virology

Abstract

To quantify the role of age, gender, exposure and rate of infection as predictor of mortality in COVID-19, a cross sectional study was conducted covering 219 patients who were tested positive out of 554 suspects in Qazi Hussain Ahmed Medical Complex Nowshera, Pakistan. Linear regression analysis was used as statistical tool. We observed that the positive contact history/exposure has been shown to have strong predictive value for mortality due to Covid-19 (β=0.394**,ΔR²=0.011, p=0.001). Similarly age>60 years and rate of infection were also a strong predictor of mortality with interaction values of (β=0.389**,ΔR²=0.046, p=0.001) and (β=0.431**; ΔR²=0.005, p =0.03) respectively. Gender as such is not a statistically significant predictor in mortality due to COVID-19. We concluded that using this regression analysis:  the age of patients  and positive exposure irrespective of gender statistically predicts the mortality  in COVID-19.

DOI

10.21608/mid.2020.37850.1046

Keywords

Linear Regression, Predictor, mortality, COVID-19

Authors

First Name

hamzullah

Last Name

khan

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Associate Professor Nowshera medical college nowshera pakistan

Email

hamzakmc@gmail.com

City

nowshera

Orcid

0000-0002-8184-5691

First Name

Khalida

Last Name

Rehman

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Medical Officer Nowshera medical college nowshera pakistan

Email

hamzullahkhan84@gmail.com

City

nowshera

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Volume

1

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

16205

Issue Date

2020-11-01

Receive Date

2020-07-03

Publish Date

2020-11-01

Page Start

136

Page End

139

Print ISSN

2682-4132

Online ISSN

2682-4140

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11

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Original Article

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1,157

Publication Type

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Publication Title

Microbes and Infectious Diseases

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https://mid.journals.ekb.eg/

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Created At

22 Jan 2023