Essential metals, vitamins and antioxidant enzyme activities in COVID-19 patients and their potential associations with the disease severity.

Biometals · 2022 · PMC8736309 · PMID 34993712

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borderline significancep = 0.065so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Serum Zn levels was lower in deceased COVID-19 patients (0.7 μg/mL) than in survivors (1.117 μg/mL) but with borderline significance ( p = 0.065).

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marginally significantno p-value reported

Due to the exploratory nature of this study, we also defined p < 0.1 as marginally significant (Weitkunat and Wildner 2002 ; Wilhelm et al. 2015 ).

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