Table 1 Clinical characteristics of the COVID-19 patients passed quality controls in this study.

From: Genome-wide association study of COVID-19 severity among the Chinese population

Categories

Huoshenshan cohort

P values

Union cohort

P values

Cases (n = 663)

Controls (n = 322)

Cases (n = 200)

Controls (n = 207)

Age, years

 Mean (SD)

64.2 (13.7)

56.6 (13.9)

1.4 × 10−15

61.8 (14.0)

52.2 (16.2)

5.0 × 10−10 

 < 65, n (%)

305 (46.0)

214 (66.5)

2.5 × 10−9

106 (53.0)

160 (77.3)

4.5 × 10−7

 ≥ 65, n (%)

358 (54.0)

108 (33.5)

94 (47.0)

47 (22.7)

Gender, n (%)

  

0.88

  

0.082

 Male

343 (51.7)

169 (52.5)

111 (55.5)

96 (46.4)

 Female

320 (48.3)

153 (47.5)

89 (44.5)

111 (53.7)

Comorbidities, n (%)

 Hypertension

251 (37.9)

90 (28.0)

0.0027

77 (38.5)

62 (30.0)

0.042

 Diabetes

119 (17.9)

37 (11.5)

0.012

37 (18.5)

26 (12.6)

0.13

 Coronary artery diseases

61 (9.2)

14 (4.3)

0.010

28 (14.0)

9 (4.3)

0.0013

 Chronic hepatitis B

16 (2.4)

9 (2.8)

0.89

3 (1.5)

1 (0.5)

0.36

 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

14 (2.1)

1 (0.0)

0.028

6 (3.0)

0 (0.0)

0.014

 Chronic renal diseases

6 (0.1)

2 (0.1)

1.00

3 (1.5)

0 (0.0)

0.12

 Cancers

24 (3.6)

5 (1.6)

0.11

13 (6.5)

5 (2.4)

0.054

Symptoms, n (%)

 Fever

470 (70.9)

205 (63.7)

0.027

143 (71.5)

132 (63.8)

0.12

 Cough

506 (76.3)

209 (64.9)

0.00022

142 (71.0)

123 (59.4)

0.014

 Headache

15 (2.3)

3 (0.1)

0.20

13 (6.5)

6 (2.9)

0.14

 Fatigue

343 (51.7)

152 (47.2)

0.21

96 (48.0)

68 (32.9)

0.0026

 Pharyngalgia

15 (2.3)

7 (2.2)

1.00

7 (3.5)

7 (3.4)

1.00

 Dyspnea

51 (7.7)

7 (2.2)

9.4 × 10−4

25 (12.5)

4 (1.9)

2.6 × 10−5

 Death, n (%)

30 (4.5)

0 (0.0)

9.9 × 10−6

21 (10.5)

0 (0.0)

1.9 × 10−7

  1. SD standard deviation.
  2. Clinical classifications of COVID-19 patients were made according to the Chinese management guideline for COVID-19 (version 7.0). The severe and critical COVID-19 patients were defined as the “cases”, and the mild and moderate COVID-19 patients were defined as the “controls”. The χ2 test or fisher’s exact test was performed to compare the differences of clinical characteristics between the cases and controls, depending on the sample sizes. Fever was defined as axillary highest temperature of at least 37.3 °C.