Inflammatory Markers and Severity in COVID-19 Patients with Clostridioides Difficile Co-Infection: A Retrospective Analysis Including Subgroups with Diabetes, Cancer, and Elderly.

Biomedicines · 2025 · PMC11761942 · PMID 39857810

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highly significantp < 0.001actually significant

The NLR was higher in patients with both infections (7.9 ± 2.7) compared to those with COVID-19 alone (6.1 ± 2.1), and this difference was highly significant ( p < 0.001).

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approaching significancep = 0.07so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Body Mass Index (BMI) was marginally higher in the COVID and CDI group (29.1 kg/m 2 ± 5.1) compared to the COVID-only group (27.8 kg/m 2 ± 4.9), approaching significance ( p = 0.07).

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.55not close (p > 0.1)

The proportion of male patients was slightly higher in the COVID and CDI group (57.1%) compared to the COVID-only group (53.5%), but this difference did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.55).

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