Abstract
Article “Stay home stay safe?” Systemic inflammation in subjects undergoing routine hematology tests during the lockdown period of COVID-19 was published on December 1, 2020 in the journal Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM) (volume 58, issue 12).
Highlights
The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread rapidly all around the world
A logistic regression model adjusted by gender was used to assess the effect of lockdown on C-reactive protein (CRP) categorized as normal/abnormal (≥8 mg/L) using robust covariance matrix estimates to account for correlation between repeated measurements
Platelet counts increased during the lockdown period, even within the normal range
Summary
The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread rapidly all around the world. *Corresponding author: Francesco Tona, MD, PhD, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University Hospital of Padova, Padova, Italy, Phone: +390498211777, Fax: +390498211802, E-mail: francesco.tona@unipd.it. Https://orcid.org/0000-00020270-1711 Dario Gregori and Giulia Lorenzoni, Unit of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health, University Hospital of Padova, Padova, Italy Giovanni Carretta, Hospital’s Medical Directorate, University Hospital of Padova, Padova, Italy Daniele Donato, Health Director, University Hospital of Padova, Padova, Italy Sabino Iliceto, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University Hospital of Padova, Padova, Italy lockdown on the hematologic and biochemical parameters, a matched-pair case-crossover design was employed, including in the study only those subjects who underwent blood sample collection both before and during the lockdown (241 subjects; 1.9% of total).
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