TY  - JOUR
TI  - The factors predicting pneumonia in COVID-19 patients: preliminary results from a
university hospital in Turkey
AB  - Background/aim: Pneumonia is the most serious clinical presentation of COVID-19. This study aimed to determine the demographic,
clinical, and laboratory findings that can properly predict COVID-19 pneumonia.
Materials and methods: This study was conducted in the Gazi University hospital. All hospitalized patients with confirmed and suspected
SARS-CoV-2 infection between 16 March 2020 and 30 April 2020 were analyzed retrospectively. COVID-19 patients were separated into
two groups, pneumonia and nonpneumonia, and then compared to determine predicting factors for COVID-19 pneumonia. Variables that
had a P-value of less than 0.20 and were not correlated with each other were included in the logistic regression model.
Results: Of the 247 patients included in the study 58% were female, and the median age was 40. COVID-19 was confirmed in 70.9% of these
patients. Among the confirmed COVID-19 cases, 21.4% had pneumonia. In the multivariate analysis male sex (P = 0.028), hypertension (P
= 0.022), and shortness of breath on hospital admission (P = 0.025) were significant factors predicting COVID-19 pneumonia.
Conclusion: Shortness of breath, male sex, and hypertension were significant for predicting COVID-19 pneumonia on admission. Patients
with these factors should be evaluated more carefully for diagnostic procedures, such as thorax CT.
AU  - KELEŞ, AYFER
AU  - Kilicaslan, Isa
AU  - GAYGISIZ, ÜMMÜGÜLSÜM
AU  - Dizbay, Murat
AU  - GUZEL TUNCCAN, OZLEM
AU  - hizel, kenan
AU  - Ozger, H.Selcuk
AU  - DEMİRBAŞ, ZEHRA
AU  - AYSERT-YILDIZ, PINAR
AU  - AYDOĞDU, MÜGE
AU  - Kokturk, Nurdan
AU  - ULUKAVAK ÇIFTÇI, TANSU
AU  - UĞRAŞ DİKMEN, ASİYE
AU  - Turkoglu, Melda
AU  - Boyacı Dündar, Nazlıhan
AU  - Tutar, Hakan
AU  - ERBAS, GONCA
AU  - Kavutcu, Mustafa
AU  - Gülbahar, Özlem
AU  - Aygencel, Gulbin
AU  - Oguzulgen, I.Kivilcim
AU  - ASLANER, MEHMET ALİ
AU  - Kilic, Koray
AU  - TUFAN, ABDURRAHMAN
AU  - YILDIZ, MEHMET
AU  - Çağlar, Kayhan
AU  - Arhan, Mehmet
AU  - Bozdayi, Gulendam
AU  - Karamercan, Mehmet
AU  - Bildik, Fikret
AU  - Demircan, AHMET
AU  - karabiyik, lale
AU  - ŞENOL, ESİN
AU  - BOSTANCI, HASAN
DO  - 10.3906/sag-2005-385
PY  - 2020
JO  - Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences
VL  - 50
IS  - 8
SN  - 1300-0144
SP  - 1810
EP  - 1816
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/535653
ER  -