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Comment
. 2021 Mar;76(3):963-965.
doi: 10.1111/all.14601.

Asthmatic patients and COVID-19: Different disease course?

Ricardo Wesley Alberca  1 , Tatiana Yendo  1 , Valéria Aoki  1 , Maria Notomi Sato  1
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Asthmatic patients and COVID-19: Different disease course?

Ricardo Wesley Alberca et al. Allergy. 2021 Mar.
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Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; asthma; systemic arterial hypertension.

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The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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Daily clinical features of COVID‐19 patients. (A) hospitalization time, (B) ratio of neutrophils to lymphocytes, (C) neutrophils, (D) creatinine, (E) C‐reactive protein, and (F) platelets. MODERATE, nonasthmatic and non‐SAH patients in the general ward with moderate COVID‐19; SEVERE, nonasthmatic and non‐SAH patients in the intensive care unit with severe COVID‐19; SAH, SAH patients in the intensive care unit; asthma + SAH, asthmatic and SAH patients in the intensive care unit. #P < .05 difference from MODERATE in relation to all other groups. **P < .01 for asthma + SAH in relation to SAH. ****P < .001 for asthma + SAH in relation to SAH. The Kruskal‐Wallis test with Dunn's multiple comparison. Data collected between March 1, 2020, and July 24, 2020
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