Table 1

- Clinical characteristics and laboratory results of the control and Covid-19 cohorts.

Characteristics	Controls (n=250) median (95% CI)	COVID-19 cases (n=701) median (95% CI)	P-value
Gender, n (%)
Male Female	138 (55.2) 112 (44.8)	317 (45.2) 384 (54.8)	0.0079^*
Age (years)	48 (44.58-48.13)	35 (35.09-37.77)	<0.0001^*
Red blood cell x10⁶/L	5.08 (5.02-5.11)	4.75 (4.65-4.78)	<0.0001^*
Hemoglobin g/dL	14 (13.6-14.06)	13.2 (11.79-12.52)	<0.0001^*
Mean corpuscular volume fL	90.35 (88.74-90.8)	86.35 (84.98-86.33)	<0.0001^*
Mean corpuscular hemoglobin pg	29.55 (29.28-29.69)	28.7 (27.96-28.49)	<0.0001^*
Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration g/dL	33 (32.91-33.14)	33 (32.51-33.02)	0.63
Platelet count x10³/μl	309.5 (297.5-320.7)	231.5 (242.2-260.8)	<0.0001^*
White blood cell count x10³/μl	7.2 (6.92-7.37)	5.5 (6.12-6.83)	<0.0001^*
Neutrophil count x10³/μl	4.4 (4.28-4.64)	3.48 (4.09-4.75)	<0.0001^*
Neutrophil percentage	58 (56.03-58.6)	66.8 (63.35-66.47)	<0.0001^*
Lymphocyte count x10³/μl	2.1 (1.95-2.1)	0.9 (0.9-1.31)	<0.0001^*
Lymphocyte percentage	30.45 (29.8-31.31)	22.6 (22.88-25.61)	<0.0001^*
Monocyte count x10³/μl	0.6 (0.61-0.69)	0.33 (0.33-0.61)	<0.0001^*
Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio	2.18 (2.3-2.6)	2.9 (4.24-5.31)	<0.0001^*

The table demonstrates the clinical characteristics and the complete blood results of both the control and patients’cohorts.
Laboratory results are stated as median values with 95% confidence intervals between brackets, unless stated otherwise.
↵*Statistical significance. CI: confidence intervals