COVID-19 Research Paper Volume 12, Issue 15 pp 15670—15681
Elevated Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH) level as an independent risk factor for the severity and mortality of COVID-19
- 1 Department of Cardiology, Hubei No.3 People’s Hospital of Jianghan University, Wuhan 430033, Hubei Province, China
- 2 Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519000, Guangdong Province, China
- 3 Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomedical Imaging, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519000, Guangdong Province, China
- 4 Department of Emergency, The Fifth Hospital in Wuhan, Wuhan 430050, Hubei Province, China
- 5 Department of Respiratory, The First Hospital of Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434000, Hubei Province, China
- 6 School of Health Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, Hubei Province, China
- 7 Department of Gastroenterology, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519000, Guangdong Province, China
- 8 Department of Cardiology, Jiayu People’s Hospital, Jiayu 437200, Hubei Province, China
- 9 Central Laboratory, Ningbo First Hospital of Zhejiang University, Ningbo 315010, Zhejiang Province, China
- 10 Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Zhuhai Hospital Affiliated with Jinan University, Zhuhai People’s Hospital, Zhuhai 519000, Guangdong Province, China
Received: May 11, 2020 Accepted: July 9, 2020 Published: August 14, 2020
https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.103770How to Cite
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Abstract
Early identification of severe patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is very important for individual treatment. We included 203 patients with COVID-19 by propensity score matching in this retrospective, case-control study. The effects of serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) at admission on patients with COVID-19 were evaluated. We found that serum LDH levels had a 58.7% sensitivity and 82.0% specificity, based on a best cut-off of 277.00 U/L, for predicting severe COVID-19. And a cut-off of 359.50 U/L of the serum LDH levels resulted in a 93.8% sensitivity, 88.2% specificity for predicting death of COVID-19. Additionally, logistic regression analysis and Cox proportional hazards model respectively indicated that elevated LDH level was an independent risk factor for the severity (HR: 2.73, 95% CI: 1.25-5.97; P=0.012) and mortality (HR: 40.50, 95% CI: 3.65-449.28; P=0.003) of COVID-19. Therefore, elevated LDH level at admission is an independent risk factor for the severity and mortality of COVID-19. LDH can assist in the early evaluating of COVID-19. Clinicians should pay attention to the serum LDH level at admission for patients with COVID-19.