26 October 2023: Clinical Research
Identifying Predominant Causes of Death Among Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients During Poland’s Second and Third Waves
Irina Niecwietajewa 1ABCDEFG , Michał Frączek 2ABCDEFG* , Maria Mroczkowska 3BC , Mariusz Frączek 3ABCDEFGDOI: 10.12659/MSM.941455
Med Sci Monit 2023; 29:e941455
Table 6 Relationship between age and cause of death in patients with COVID-19*.
| Cause od death | Age | All (N=204) | Chi-2 test | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25–64 (N=28) | 65–74 (N=60) | 75–84 (N=55) | ≥85 (N=61) | |||||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | Chi-2 | p | |
| COVID lung disease | 14 | 50.0 | 29 | 48.3 | 35 | 63.6 | 50 | 80.3 | 128 | 62.7 | 16.938 | 0.001 |
| HAP | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 7.3 | 4 | 6.6 | 11 | 5.4 | 2.158 | 0.102 |
| VAP | 8 | 28.6 | 16 | 26.7 | 7 | 12.7 | 1 | 1.6 | 32 | 15.6 | 18.450 | |
| Sepsis other | 4 | 14.3 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 10.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 13 | 6.4 | 7.901 | 0.048 |
| Heart failure | 1 | 3.6 | 2 | 3.3 | 2 | 3.6 | 6 | 9.8 | 11 | 5.4 | 3.374 | 0.338 |
| Pulmonary embolism | 3 | 10.7 | 5 | 8.3 | 2 | 3.6 | 1 | 1.6 | 11 | 5.4 | 4.589 | 0.205 |
| Other thromboembolic complications | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1.7 | 6 | 10.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 7 | 3.4 | 13.000 | 0.005 |
| * N and% do not sum up to 100 because there could be more than 1 cause of death. | ||||||||||||