Table 1 Adult and Pediatric cohort characteristics.

From: Upper airway gene expression shows a more robust adaptive immune response to SARS-CoV-2 in children

 

Adult Cohort

Pediatric Cohort

Adult vs Pediatric

 

Cohort Overall

SARS-CoV-2

Other Virus

No Virus

p-value

Cohort Overall

SARS-CoV-2

Other Virus

No Virus

p-value

Overall

p-value

SARS-CoV-2

p-value

Total Enrolled (n)

154

45

28

81

 

83

38

11

34

   

Age, years (median, range, IQR)

62 (40–89, 47–71)

57 (40–82, 44–64)

61.5 (40–89, 45–73)

62 (41–89, 52–72)

0.07

4 (<1–19, 2–12)

5 (<1–19, 2–11)

3 (<1–14, 2–11)

4 (<1–16, 2–12)

0.97

  

Female gender

78 (51%)

25 (56%)

10 (36%)

43 (53%)

0.21

42 (51%)

16 (42%)

7 (64%)

19 (56%)

0.38

0.93

0.27

Clinical Encounter Type

Inpatient

42 (27%)

4 (9%)

9 (32%)

29 (36%)

 

31 (37%)

1 (3%)

2 (18%)

28 (82%)

   

Intensive Care Unit

16 (10%)

2 (4%)

5 (18%)

9 (11%)

 

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

   

Emergency Department

24 (16%)

3 (7%)

6 (21%)

15 (19%)

 

19 (23%)

6 (16%)

8 (73%)

5 (15%)

   

Outpatient

55 (36%)

24 (53%)

8 (29%)

23 (28%)

 

31 (37%)

30 (79%)

0 (0%)

1 (3%)

   

Unknown

17 (11%)

12 (27%)

0 (0%)

5 (6%)

0.003

2 (2%)

1 (3%)

1 (9%)

0 (0%)

<0.001

0.59

0.23

Race

White or Caucasian

67 (44%)

6 (13%)

19 (68%)

42 (52%)

 

34 (41%)

13 (34%)

4 (36%)

17 (50%)

   

Asian

25 (16%)

6 (13%)

5 (18%)

14 (17%)

 

6 (7%)

1 (3%)

1 (9%)

4 (12%)

   

Black or African American

14 (9%)

1 (2%)

1 (4%)

12 (15%)

 

4 (5%)

2 (5%)

2 (18%)

0 (0%)

   

Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander

1 (1%)

1 (2%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

 

2 (2%)

0 (0%)

1 (9%)

1 (3%)

   

American Indian or Alaska Native

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

 

1 (1%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

1 (3%)

   

Other

27 (18%)

17 (38%)

3 (11%)

7 (9%)

 

29 (35%)

17 (45%)

2 (18%)

10 (29%)

   

Unknown

20 (13%)

14 (31%)

0 (0%)

6 (7%)

<0.001

7 (8%)

5 (13%)

1 (9%)

1 (3%)

0.31

0.013

0.1

Ethnicity

Not Hispanic or Latino

109 (71%)

16 (36%)

26 (93%)

67 (83%)

 

43 (52%)

10 (26%)

7 (64%)

26 (76%)

   

Hispanic or Latino

23 (15%)

14 (31%)

1 (4%)

8 (10%)

 

34 (41%)

23 (61%)

3 (27%)

8 (24%)

   

Unknown

22 (14%)

15 (33%)

1 (4%)

6 (7%)

<0.001

6 (7%)

5 (7%)

1 (9%)

0 (0%)

<0.001

<0.001

0.06

  1. Values are n (%) unless otherwise indicated.
  2. Race categories with <1 patient in ≥ 1 group were excluded from analyses.
  3. Unknown values were excluded from analyses.
  4. Age was analyzed as one-way ANOVA and all categorial variables were analyzed using chi-square.