Research Article
Alteration of Plasma Amino Acid Concentrations in Iranian Children with COVID-19
Table 3
Comparison of amino acids concentration (μmol/L) between ICU and non-ICU patients.
| Analyte | ICU-patients
| Non-ICU patients
| value | Analyte | ICU-patients
| Non-ICU patients
| value | | | | |
| Alanine | | | 0.09 | Isoleucine | | | 0.04 | Arginine | | | 0.04 | Lysine | | | 0.26 | Asparagine | | | 0.42 | Methionine | | | 0.35 | Aspartic acid | | | 0.26 | Ornithine | | | 0.53 | Citrulline | | | 0.22 | Phenylalanine | | | 0.95 | α-Aminobutyric acid | | | 0.05 | Serine | | | 0.02 | Glutamic acid | | | 0.91 | Taurine | | | 0.49 | Glutamine | | | 0.11 | Threonine | | | 0.12 | Glycine | | | 0.01 | Tryptophane | | | 0.14 | Histidine | | | 0.69 | Tyrosine | | | 0.17 | Leucine | | | 0.23 | Valine | | | 0.22 |
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The Mann–Whitney test was used to determine differences between two groups. P ≤0.05 is statistically significant.
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