id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-353965-0bb729sp Halim, Ashraf Abdel Clinical characteristics and outcome of ICU admitted MERS corona virus infected patients 2016-01-31 .txt text/plain 3654 201 48 There was a statistically significant positive correlation between mortality and old age (r =0.633), obesity (r =0.712), diabetes mellitus (r =0.685), renal failure (r =0.705), chronic heart diseases (0.591), COPD (r =0.523), malignancy (r =0.692), kidney transplantation (r =0.644) and liver cirrhosis (r =0.525) (P <0.05). Our study showed that most of the expired patients presented with bilateral pulmonary infiltrates or unilateral infiltrates, but most of the survivors presented with normal radiology or increased bronchovascular markings, and this difference in the results was statistically highly significant (P < 0.01) ( Table 2) . Also, old age, current smoking, smoking severity, presence of associated co-morbidities like obesity, diabetes mellitus, chronic heart diseases, COPD, malignancy, renal failure, renal transplantation and liver cirrhosis associated with a poor outcome of ICU admitted MERS corona virus infected patients. Also, old age, current smoking, smoking severity, presence of associated co-morbidities like obesity, diabetes mellitus, chronic heart diseases, COPD, malignancy, renal failure, renal transplantation and liver cirrhosis associated with a poor outcome of ICU admitted MERS corona virus infected patients. ./cache/cord-353965-0bb729sp.txt ./txt/cord-353965-0bb729sp.txt