Research Article
Fungal Infections Are Not Associated with Increased Mortality in COVID-19 Patients Admitted to Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
Table 1
Patient characteristics at baseline.
| Variables | Fungal (n = 81) | Nonfungal (n = 93) | value |
| Age (±SD) | 59 ± 11 | 57 ± 12 | 0.27 | Male gender | 56 (70%) | 56 (60%) | 0.18 | BMI (±SD) | 33 ± 8 | 31 ± 7 | 0.01 | Smoking | Current smoker | 6 (7%) | 5 (5%) | 0.58 | Ex-smoker | 27 (33%) | 24 (26%) | 0.28 | Never smoker | 48 (59%) | 64 (70%) | 0.19 | Comorbidities | Hypertension | 32 (40%) | 43 (46%) | 0.37 | Diabetes | 18 (22%) | 22 (24%) | 0.82 | COPD | 3 (4%) | 3 (3%) | 0.86 | Asthma | 11 (14%) | 8 (9%) | 0.29 | ICULOS (IQR) | 23 (1–116) | 8 (1–60) | <0.001 | HLOS (IQR) | 30 (3–183) | 15 (1–174) | <0.001 | Steroid days (IQR) | 10 (1–116) | 4 (0–28) | 0.02 | Ventilation days (IQR) | 18 (0–120) | 2 (0–55) | <0.001 | Died | 41 (51%) | 48 (52%) | 0.90 |
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Indicates variables with statistical significance ( ). ICULOS and HLOS are represented in days. |