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. 2022 Nov 24:10:1024535.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1024535. eCollection 2022.

Inflammatory biomarkers and cardiac injury in COVID-19 patients

Ayesha Mumtaz  1 , Erum Rehman  2 , Mohammad Anisur Rahaman  3   4 , Shazia Rehman  5
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Inflammatory biomarkers and cardiac injury in COVID-19 patients

Ayesha Mumtaz et al. Front Public Health. .

Abstract

Introduction: Cardiac injury has received considerable attention due to the higher risk of morbidity and mortality associated with coronavirus disease. However, in a developing country, there is a scarcity of data on cardiac injury in COVID-19 patients related to inflammatory biomarkers.

Methods: Therefore, the present research retrospectively analyzes data from three territorial hospitals in Pakistan's Punjab province to investigate the potential impact of the cardiac injury on the mortality and severity of COVID-19-infected patients. We evaluated 2,051 patients between January 16 and April 18, 2022, with confirmed COVID-19. The in-hospital mortality recorded for the selected sample size was about 16.28%.

Results: The majority of the participants were identified as male (64%) with a median age of 65 years. Also, fever, fatigue, and dyspnea were reported as common symptoms. An aggregate of 623 patients (30.38%) had a cardiac injury, and when these patients are compared to those without cardiac injury, the participants were significantly older and had more comorbidities with higher leukocyte counts, elevated levels of C-reactive protein, interleukin-6, procalcitonin, myohemoglobin, creatinine kinase-myocardial band, serum creatinine, high-sensitivity troponin-I, N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide had a significant amount of multiple ground-glass opacity and bilateral pulmonary infiltration in radiographic results. Participants with heart injury required more non-invasive or invasive mechanical respiration than those who did not have a cardiac injury. Individuals with cardiac injury had higher rates of sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), d-dimer concentration, and respiratory failure than those without cardiac injury. Patients who had had a cardiac injury died at a higher rate than those who had not suffered cardiac damage. In the multivariable logistic regression analysis, participants with cardiac injury showed greater odds of COVID-19 mortality and were found associated with older age (OR = 1.99, 95% CI = 0.04-3.19), elevated cardiac troponin I (OR = 18.64, 95% CI = 13.16-23.01), the complication of sepsis (OR = 10.39, 95% CI = 7.41-13.39) and ARDS (OR = 6.65, 95% CI = 4.04-8.91).

Conclusion: Cardiac injury is a frequent complication among patients with coronavirus-induced infection in Punjab, Pakistan, and it is significantly linked to a greater risk of in-hospital mortality.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; cardiac biomarkers; cardiac injury; coagulation biomarkers; inflammatory biomarkers; mortality; severe patients.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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