Frontiers in Genetics (Dec 2022)

Studying C-reactive protein and D-dimer levels in blood may prevent severe complications: A study in Bangladeshi COVID-19 patients

  • Gazi Nurun Nahar Sultana,
  • Anshika Srivastava,
  • Khalida Akhtaar,
  • Prajjval Pratap Singh,
  • Md. Anarul Islam,
  • Rahul Kumar Mishra,
  • Gyaneshwer Chaubey

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.966595
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13

Abstract

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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has been a scientific, medical and social challenge. Since clinical course of this disease is largely unpredictable and can develop rapidly causing severe complications, it is important to identify laboratory biomarkers, which may help to classify patient’s severity during initial stage. Previous studies have suggested C—reactive protein (inflammatory) and D-dimer (biochemical) as an effective biomarker. The differential severity in patients across the world and our limited understanding in the progression of the disease calls for a multi-country analysis for biomarkers. Therefore, we have analyzed these biomarkers among 228 Bangladeshi COVID-19 patients. We observed significant association of COVID-19 severity with these two biomarkers. Thus, we suggest to use these biomarkers for Bangladeshi COVID-19 patients for better disease monitoring. Such validated preventive measures may decrease the case fatality ratio substantially.

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