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. 2020 Oct;81(4):647-679.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.06.053. Epub 2020 Jun 24.

Serum ferritin as an independent risk factor for severity in COVID-19 patients

Zhi Lin  1 , Fei Long  2 , Yong Yang  3 , Xiangyu Chen  4 , Linyong Xu  5 , Minghua Yang  6
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Serum ferritin as an independent risk factor for severity in COVID-19 patients

Zhi Lin et al. J Infect. 2020 Oct.
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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors state that they have no conflicts of interest to disclosure.

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Serum ferritin levels of COVID-19 patients and its correlation with the disease severity. A Serum ferritin levels on admission in severe and nonsevere COVID-19 patients (P< 0.0001). B ROC curve of serum ferritin for the severity of COVID-19. Correlations between serum ferritin and C-reactive protein (C), lymphocyte (D).
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