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Table 4 Meta-regression analysis

From: The incidence of pulmonary thromboembolism in COVID-19 patients admitted to the intensive care unit: a meta-analysis and meta-regression of observational studies

 

Univariate analysis

Multivariate analysis

Variables

Coeff

SE

95% CI

P

Coeff

SE

95% CI

P

Sample size

0.00

0.00

− 0.01–0.01

0.55

Age (years)

0.06

0.08

− 0.09–0.22

0.40

Male gender (%)

0.06

0.02

0.03–0.09

< 0.01

0.05

0.02

0.00–0.09

0.03

Body-mass index (kg/m2)

− 0.14

0.12

− 0.37–0.10

0.25

Diabetes mellitus (%)

0.00

0.04

− 0.08–0.08

0.95

Hypertension (%)

0.04

0.03

− 0.01–0.09

0.15

Active malignancy (%)

− 0.06

0.09

− 0.24–0.13

0.54

Previous VTE (%)

0.08

0.11

− 0.13–0.28

0.48

Platelet count

0.03

0.01

0.01–0.05

0.01

0.01

0.01

− 0.01–0.02

0.42

D-dimer level

0.00

0.00

− 0.00–0.01

0.44

Patients on therapeutic anticoagulation (%)

0.02

0.01

0.01–0.03

< 0.01

0.01

0.01

− 0.01–0.03

0.24

Patients intubated (%)

0.03

0.04

− 0.04–0.10

0.43

Patients on inotropes (%)

0.03

0.03

− 0.03–0.09

0.36

Patients on RRT (%)

− 0.02

0.04

− 0.09–0.06

0.66

Patients on ECMO (%)

0.07

0.15

− 0.21–0.35

0.63

  1. BMI body mass index, Coeff coefficient, CI confidence interval, ECMO extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, RRT renal replacement therapy, SE standard error, VTE venous thromboembolism