Study of the prognostic relationship between the value of C-reactive protein and mortality in patients with pneumonia.

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Abstract Objective To determine the prognostic relationship between the level of C-reactive protein (CRP) and mortality among patients visiting Damascus Hospital between the years 1/1/2022 and 1/1/2023 AD. Methods and materials: A cross-sectional study on 100 patients from Damascus Hospital. A paper questionnaire was used through which patient information was collected. The data was entered into the Excel program and analyzed by the researchers in order to reach the goal of the study. Results The percentage of males was 64% and the percentage of females was 36%. The average age of patients was 34,788 ± 31,966 years. The percentage of smokers was 20%, most of whom were heavy smokers. Asthma is the most common hereditary disease (28%), followed by high blood pressure (13%). The most common medical history of patients was high blood pressure and asthma, with the same percentage (24%), followed by type 2 diabetes. The simple image was used in more than two-thirds of patients (70%), and the most common findings in the chest image were alveolar density in the lower lobe of the left lung (42). %), followed by alveolar density at the base of the lungs (38%), the average C-reactive protein in patients was 56.894 ± 60.9 mg/L, the average length of stay was 8.74 ± 6.581 days, and two-thirds of the patients were treated with ciprofloxacin, clindamycin and ceftriaxone, and the mortality rate was 17%. Conclusion There are significant differences in the average ages of patients depending on the prognosis (improvement, death, recovery), there are no significant differences in the average values of protein C according to the prognosis (improvement, death, recovery), there is no statistically significant relationship between gender and prognosis, and there are no differences. There are significant differences in the average length of stay in the hospital depending on prognosis, there are significant differences in the age of patients according to gender, and there are no significant differences in the average length of stay and C-reactive protein according to gender.