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ajlm-1298	Ahmeidi, Awadia A.; Musa, Ashraf; Ahmed, Hind S.; Elahmar, Adel A.; Goota, Ryhana B.; Ahmed, Ibtihal A.; Ali, Abdelhakam H.; Allam, Mushal; Hassan, Mozan O.	Inflammatory markers as predictors of mortality in COVID-19 infection	2020		.htm	text/html	1231	64	42	According to Zhou et al., D-dimer levels exceeding 1.0 µg/mL at hospital admission correlated significantly with death among hospitalised COVID-19 patients in China, with a p-value of less than 0.001.3 Another study in Wuhan, China, which included 343 in-patients with confirmed COVID-19, showed that elevated D-dimer levels over 2 µg/mL at an early stage of hospitalisation correlated significantly with a high risk of death.4 Also, according to another study from China that included 1099 confirmed COVID-19 patients, results revealed that median D-dimer and C-reactive protein levels were higher among severe cases compared to non-severe cases, demonstrating that high D-dimer and C-reactive protein levels were significantly associated with COVID-19 severity.5 Additionally, in Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, China, a study showed that high levels of interleukin-6 were significantly associated with a high mortality rate.6 This finding was corroborated by Silberstein in this study.7 Liu Y et al. in Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University identified an elevation in the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as an independent and significant predictor of mortality among 245 hospitalised COVID-19 patients, with an 8% increase in mortality with each unit increase in neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio.8 Many studies reported a correlation between high levels of hs-CRP and mortality rate in COVID-19 patients. In this article, we identify inflammatory markers (interleukin-6, D-dimer, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and hs-CRP) as predictors of COVID-19 mortality.	cache/ajlm-1298.htm	txt/ajlm-1298.txt