Open AccessClinical characteristics and risk factors for liver injury in COVID-19 patients in Wuhan
Author(s) -
Hu Zhang,
Yu Sheng Liao,
Jing Gong,
Jing Liu,
Heng Zhang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
world journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 2219-2840
pISSN - 1007-9327
DOI - 10.3748/wjg.v26.i31.4694
Subject(s) - covid-19 , medicine , liver injury , betacoronavirus , risk factor , virology , outbreak , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a worldwide pandemic. We investigated the clinical characteristics and risk factors for liver injury in COVID-19 patients in Wuhan by retrospectively analyzing the epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory data for 218 COVID-19 patients and identifying the risk factors for liver injury by multivariate analysis.