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Materials and Methods:

The aim is to describe the clinical characteristics in patients of COVID-19 and investigate the gender difference with particular regard to liver impairment. Confirmation of COVID-19 positivity was based on RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 RNA. Laboratory investigations and clinical data was analyzed using SPSS Statistics 27.

Results:

The final study population consisted of 116 patients. On performing the Mann Whitney U test, adjusted P values reveal a significant difference in ALT (P= 0.0348), total bilirubin (P= 0.0012) and direct bilirubin (P= 0.0024). The degree of hypoalbuminemia in males was significantly higher than in females (P= 0.0075). Other biochemical parameters, however, did not show significant difference amongst patients based on gender. Acute kidney injury was the most prevalent condition, present in 67.2% of the patients. Other co-morbidities were diabetes mellites, chronic liver …