Characteristics of the study group:
The individual severity of disease was assessed clinically using a
standardized questionnaire including age, gender, pre-existing as well
as acute physical condition and rated as asymptomatic, mild, moderate
and severe course of disease according to the definitions by Gietl et
al., under review).
Within our study group, three patients (8.8%) were asymptomatically
infected with SARS-CoV-2, 20 patients (58.8%) showed a mild, six
(18.8%) a moderate and five (14.7%) a severe course of the disease.
In total, the group consisted of 18 women and 16 men. Gender-related
differences in the course of disease was not significant (p =
0.11), although only one (5.6%) female had a severe course compared to
four male patients (25%).
The median age was 49.0 years (range 11 to 77 years; sd = 16.4).
Due to different expectations of disease course (Gietl et al., under
review), the age groups were divided into three groups of 11 – 30, 31
– 60 and 61 – 77 years.