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cord-275438-drywzvx8	Satış, Hasan	Prognostic value of interleukin-18 and its association with other inflammatory markers and disease severity in COVID-19	2020-09-29		.txt	text/plain	3539	212	46	Serum IL-18 levels were remarkably higher in COVID-19 patients compared to healthy subjects with being highest in severe pneumonia group (p < 0.001). According to the disease course, COVID-19 patients may be roughly divided into two groups; asymptomatic or mild cases that usually recover and severe cases that develop multi organ failure, primarily respiratory failure, requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission [5, 6] . In this study, we found that both IL-6 and serum IL-18 concentrations are remarkably increased in patients with COVID-19 and correlated with other inflammatory markers and disease severity. There are differences in cytokine production among COVID-19 patients, such as men are more susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection than women and children, in whom it could present as Kawasaki disease [29, 30] , as well as serum cytokine levels tend to be higher in men explaining their worse prognosis [29] .	./cache/cord-275438-drywzvx8.txt	./txt/cord-275438-drywzvx8.txt