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Comment
. 2020 Nov;92(11):2283-2285.
doi: 10.1002/jmv.25948. Epub 2020 Jun 2.

Elevated interleukin-6 and severe COVID-19: A meta-analysis

Muhammad Aziz  1 , Rawish Fatima  1 , Ragheb Assaly  2
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Elevated interleukin-6 and severe COVID-19: A meta-analysis

Muhammad Aziz et al. J Med Virol. 2020 Nov.
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Figure 1
A forest plot comparing mean difference between severe and nonsevere coronavirus disease 2019 patients (A). B, Overall studies using respiratory distress as definition for severity. CI, confidence interval
Figure 2
Figure 2
A scatter plot demonstrating the association of serum interleukin‐6 (IL‐6) and mortality
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