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30 December 2021: Clinical Research

Retrospective Study of Outcomes and Hospitalization Rates of Patients in Italy with a Confirmed Diagnosis of Early COVID-19 and Treated at Home Within 3 Days or After 3 Days of Symptom Onset with Prescribed and Non-Prescribed Treatments Between November 2020 and August 2021

Serafino Fazio 1ABDEF* , Paolo Bellavite 2AE* , Elisabetta Zanolin 3CD , Peter A. McCullough 4DE , Sergio Pandolfi 5AD , Flora Affuso 6ABF

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.935379

Med Sci Monit 2021; 27:e935379

Table 3 Mutually adjusted odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for the association of considered variables with duration of symptoms in the whole sample.

Variable*Odds ratio**95% CIp value
Age1.000.94–1.060.961
Sex (F vs M)0.990.18–5.320.995
Weight0.990.90–1.100.970
BMI1.050.80–1.390.688
Saturation at 1 visit0.670.41–1.090.405
Treatment initiation
Hypertension (n=39)0.660.10–4.240.666
Diabetes (n=18)0.370.038–3.530.388
IHD (n=10)2.270.21–24.210.494
Pleural pain (n=35)
* BMI – body mass index; IHD – ischemic heart disease.
** Odds ratio of the risk of duration of symptoms equal or longer than the median of duration of symptoms in the whole population (=8 days).
, statistically significant results.

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