sMR and PTX3 levels associate with COVID-19 outcome and survival but not with Long COVID.

iScience · 2024 · PMC11255846 · PMID 39027374

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0.0063

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0.0636

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showed a trendp = 0.0063actually significant

PTX3 concentrations showed a trend toward increased levels at day 0 in non-survivors and this increase became significant at day 14 (2.7-fold induction; p = 0.0063), but normalized at day 28.

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.0636so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

However, due to the low number of patients in the non-survivor group ( n = 3), this inferred increase did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.0636).

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