Table 1 Comparisons of clinical characteristics between patients with and without myocardial injury. NYHA New York Heart Association, ECG electrocardiogram.

From: The value of non-contrast chest CT in the prediction of myocardial injury in patients with the COVID-19 Omicron variant

Variables

All (n = 122)

Patients with myocardial injury (n = 61)

Patients without myocardial injury (n = 61)

P value

Clinical characteristics

 Age, years

68 ± 15

73 (21)

68 ± 12

0.191

 Male, n (%)

81 (66%)

42 (69%)

39 (64%)

0.565

 Diabetes, n (%)

19 (16%)

9 (15%)

10 (16%)

0.803

 Smoking, n (%)

9 (7%)

3 (5%)

6 (10%)

0.299

 NYHA class ≥ II, n (%)

11 (9%)

10 (16%)

1 (2%)

0.004

 Hypertension, n (%)

42 (34%)

23 (38%)

19 (31%)

0.446

 ECG abnormalities

4 (3%)

3 (5%)

1 (2%)

0.309

 Troponin I, ng/ml

0.042 (1.364)

1.331 (2.931)

0.004 (0.008)

< 0.001

 In-hospital death, n (%)

6 (5%)

5 (8%)

1 (2%)

0.094

Disease severity status

 Mild, n (%)

5 (4%)

1 (2%)

4 (7%)

 

 General, n (%)

41 (34%)

19 (31%)

32 (52%)

0.001

 Severe, n (%)

48 (39%)

25 (41%)

23 (38%)

 

 Critical, n (%)

18 (15%)

16 (26%)

2 (3%)

0.001

  1. P-values of factors with bold values are less than 0.05.