COVID-19 decreases Hemoglobin

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2020

RCT

Hemoglobin value may be decreased in patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019
Camilla Mattiuzzi, Giuseppe Lippi
«The mean hemoglobin difference of the four individual studies reporting continuous values of this parameter is shown in Figure 1. In all except one7 of these four investigations, the hemoglobin value was found to be significantly lower in COVID-19 patients with severe disease than in those with milder forms, yielding a WMD of −7.1 g/L; 95% CI, −8.3 to −5.9 g/L).»
Organism: Humans
Strong Magnitude of Effect.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7128154
10.1016/j.htct.2020.03.001

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