The role of concomitant cardiovascular diseases and cardiac biomarkers for predicting mortality in critical COVID-19 patients

to identify the potential cardiovascular risk factors associated with mortality in hospitalised COVID-19 patients.All consecutive patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) of our institute for COVID-19 from 1 April 2020 to 20 May 2020 were included. Patient characteristics including complete medical history and comorbid diseases, admission and 7th day blood test results and clinical characteristics were compared between survivors and...