Demographic characteristics of patients
A total of 422 patients, who were hospitalized for COVID-19 pneumonia
between 11 March 2020 and 1 October 2020, were included in the study.
The demographic data of all the cases, characteristics of the patients
who died and who survived are shown in Table 1. The diagnosis was made
with 72,5% PCR positivity and 27,4 % of the cases were diagnosed with
radiology and rapid antibody test. When the distribution of age groups
between the mortality and survival groups was evaluated, it was found
that there were older patients in the mortality group
(P<0.001). Male gender, being a cigarette smoker, presence of
comorbidity, and history of using Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme (ACE)
inhibitor drug were statistically more significant in the mortality
group (p values 0.046, 0.001, 0.001, and 0.004, respectively). The blood
groups and Body Mass Index values were not found to be significant
between the mortality and survival groups (p: 0.145 and 0.383,
respectively) (Table 1).