Why the study?
To investigate the correlation between clinical characteristics and cardiac injury in COVID-2019 pneumonia.
Cardiac injury, indicated by elevated troponin and low epicardial adipose tissue density on CT, is common in severe and critical COVID-19 patients.
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Hypothesis-generating for clinical predictors of cardiac injury in COVID-19; prospective validation required before any practice implications.
Hui et al. (2020) studied this question.
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