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ArticleScientific reports2023

Profiling Covid-19 patients with respect to level of severity: an integrated statistical approach.

Federica Cugnata, Maria Giovanna Scarale, Rebecca De Lorenzo, Marco Simonini, Lorena Citterio, Patrizia Rovere Querini, Antonella Castagna, Clelia Di Serio, Chiara Lanzani

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Federica Cugnata *University Centre of Statistics in the Biomedical Sciences, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
Maria Giovanna Scarale *University Centre of Statistics in the Biomedical Sciences, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
Rebecca De LorenzoSchool of Medicine, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
Marco SimoniniNephrology and Dialysis Unit, Genomics of Renal Diseases and Hypertension Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Lorena CitterioNephrology and Dialysis Unit, Genomics of Renal Diseases and Hypertension Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Patrizia Rovere QueriniSchool of Medicine, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
Antonella CastagnaSchool of Medicine, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
Clelia Di SerioUniversity Centre of Statistics in the Biomedical Sciences, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy. diserio.clelia@hsr.it.
Chiara LanzaniSchool of Medicine, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.

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Abstract

A full understanding of the characteristics of Covid-19 patients with a better chance of experiencing poor vital outcomes is critical for implementing accurate and precise treatments. In this paper, two different advanced data-driven statistical approaches along with standard statistical methods have been implemented to identify groups of patients most at-risk for death or severity of respiratory distress. First, the tree-based analysis allowed to identify profiles of patients with different risk of in-hospital death (by Survival Tree-ST analysis) and severity of respiratory distress (by Classification and Regression Tree-CART analysis), and to unravel the role on risk stratification of highly dependent covariates (i.e., demographic characteristics, admission values and comorbidities). The ST analysis identified as the most at-risk group for in-hospital death the patients with age > 65 years, creatinine [Formula: see text] 1.2 mg/dL, CRP [Formula: see text] 25 mg/L and anti-hypertensive treatment. Based on the CART analysis, the subgroups most at-risk of severity of respiratory distress were defined by patients with creatinine level [Formula: see text] 1.2 mg/dL. Furthermore, to investigate the multivariate dependence structure among the demographic characteristics, the admission values, the comorbidities and the severity of respiratory distress, the Bayesian Network analysis was applied. This analysis confirmed the influence of creatinine and CRP on the severity of respiratory distress.

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COVID-19Respiratory Distress SyndromeAgedBayes TheoremCreatinineHospital MortalityHumansCreatinine

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