Incidence of COVID-19 and Identification of Possible Risk Factors Associated with COVID-19 in Acute Renal Transplant Recipients in Pakistan

04 October 2022: Original Paper

Nida Saleem ^12ABDEF* , Saima Bashir ^1ABE , Asrar Khan ^23ADEFG , Syed Nayer Mahmud ^1AE , Maliha Aziz ^4CD , Merina Khan ^1BEF

DOI: 10.12659/AOT.937688

Ann Transplant 2022; 27:e937688

Table 3 Baseline transplant characteristics by COVID-19 status.

Variables	COVID-19 positive (n: 14)	COVID-19 negative (n: 36)	p-value

	2	13	0.236
30–60	12	23


Male	9	32
Female	5	4


Yes	2	2	0.307
No	12	34


Diabetes mellitus
Yes	10	9
No	4	27
Hypertension
Yes	13	33	0.889
No	1	3
Stroke
Yes	0	3	0.265
No	14	33
Smoking
Yes	3	9	0.791
No	11	27


Yes	4	4	0.131
No	10	32

^a
0	3	6	0.499
1–5	9	19
>5	2	11

^b
Yes	4	7	0.484
No	10	29


ATG^c	13	16
Basiliximab	0	14
None	1	6


Yes	1	2	0.839
No	13	34


Yes	0	29
No	14	7
^a – human leukocyte antigen ^b – new onset diabetes after transplant ^c – anti-thymocyte globulin.