id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cord-347916-9suvf3ln	Kong, Man	Higher level of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte is associated with severe COVID-19	2020-07-09		.txt	text/plain	3303	188	51	This study aims to assess the association between the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and the incidence of severe COVID-19 infection. A study indicated that large amounts of pro-inflammatory cytokines in serum were associated with pulmonary inflammation and extensive lung damage in COVID-19, similar to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-COV) infection [6] . The current study aimed to investigate the association between different laboratory data (including lymphocyte subsets and inflammatory biomarkers) and clinical characteristics of hospitalised patients with mild and severe COVID-19 infection to reveal a potentially useful prognostic factor associated with severe morbidity. Compared with the mild group, most patients in the severe group showed higher levels of infection-related indicators, such as procalcitonin (0.07 vs. In this study, the patients in the highest NLR tertile presented a 5.9-fold increased risk of incidence of severe COVID-19 after adjustments for potential confounders were applied.	./cache/cord-347916-9suvf3ln.txt	./txt/cord-347916-9suvf3ln.txt