CRP and NLR as Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers for Severity of COVID-19 Infection
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2021-01-21
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جامعة الشيخ عبدالله البدري
Abstract
The current COVID-19 pandemic challenges not only the lack of awareness of the disease, but also the rapid
diagnosis, the prediction of severe early disease, the clinical characterization of mortality and severity of patients, and the
effective management that affects the global scale, resulting in low capacities of healthcare systems, the resilience of
systems and global economics. Therefore, early differential diagnosis and prediction of SARS-COV-2 infection severity
are needed. CRP and NLR are diagnostic marker commonly used, most available, effective, and economically used
primarily to evaluate the ongoing systemic inflammatory response.