D-Dimer and Serum ferritin as an Independent Risk Factor for Severity in COVID-19 Patients

Ali M Hussein; Zhala B Taha; Ahmed Gailan Malek; Kamgar Akram Rasul; Dur Hazim Kasim; Reman Jalal Ahmed; Usama Badraden Mohamed

doi:10.1016/j.matpr.2021.04.009

D-Dimer and Serum ferritin as an Independent Risk Factor for Severity in COVID-19 Patients

Mater Today Proc. 2021 Apr 13. doi: 10.1016/j.matpr.2021.04.009. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Ali M Hussein¹, Zhala B Taha², Ahmed Gailan Malek¹, Kamgar Akram Rasul¹, Dur Hazim Kasim¹, Reman Jalal Ahmed¹, Usama Badraden Mohamed¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Forestry,College of Agiultural Engineering Sciences, Salahaddin University, Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq.
² Taha Department of Forestry,College of Agiultural Engineering Sciences, Salahaddin University, Erbil, Kurdistan.

Abstract

Ferritin is an intracellular blood protein that contains iron, covid-19 diseases is an infectious disease caused by a virus called corona virus, the infected person mostly experiences mild to moderate respiratory illness ferritin level in blood mostly depend on severity of the covid-19 disease. Ferritin level could be used as an indicator for the covid-19 disease. Within 120 corona virus patients that used as individual in this study, the ferritin level in the blood were tested, also each of (D-Dimer, ESR, C.R protein) Depend on the results, the patients with over 60 years have a high ferritin level also the d-dimer were abnormal with 65% higher than normal range.

Keywords: COVID-19 Patients; D-Dimer; Serum ferritin.