Bicarbonate concentration as a predictor of prognosis in moderately severe COVID-19 patients: A multicenter retrospective study

• Ken-ei Sada ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ken-ei Sada, Ryohei Yamamoto, Akihiko Yano

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sadak@kochi-u.ac.jp

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, Nankoku, Japan, Department of Internal Medicine, Kochi Prefectural Hata-Kenmin Hospital, Sukumo, Japan, Department of General Medicine, Kochi Health Sciences Center, Kochi, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1020-0818

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• Ryohei Yamamoto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ken-ei Sada, Ryohei Yamamoto, Akihiko Yano

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, School of Public Health in the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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• Akihiko Yano ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ken-ei Sada, Ryohei Yamamoto, Akihiko Yano

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Kochi Health Sciences Center, Kochi, Japan

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• Atsushi Miyauchi,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Kochi Prefectural Hata-Kenmin Hospital, Sukumo, Japan

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• Masafumi Kawamura,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Kochi Prefectural Hata-Kenmin Hospital, Sukumo, Japan

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• Hideki Ito

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Kochi Health Sciences Center, Kochi, Japan

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