id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cord-352215-dhkvh45t	Ramachandran, Preethi	Increased serum aminotransferase activity and clinical outcomes in Coronavirus disease 2019	2020-06-30		.txt	text/plain	2540	151	45	CONCLUSION: Elevated aminotransferases among hospitalized COVID-19 patients is associated with higher rates of mechanical ventilation, but did not achieve statistical significance after controlling for inflammatory markers. Due to these gaps in current knowledge, we aim to measure the prevalence of clinically significant (twice the ULN) elevation of aminotransferase levels in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Elevated aminotransferases were associated with an increased rate of mechanical ventilation, but did not achieve statistical significance after controlling for inflammatory markers. However, we found that the rate of mechanical ventilation was significantly higher in patients with elevated aminotransferases, but the statistical significance was lost when adjusted for confounding variables. The results of our study show that clinically significant elevation of aminotransferases (2 X ULN) was noted in 13.7% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Clinical characteristics of non-ICU hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019 and liver injury: A retrospective study	./cache/cord-352215-dhkvh45t.txt	./txt/cord-352215-dhkvh45t.txt