“…Despite continuous efforts and research on this topic, the exact mechanisms and the circumstances in which they trigger the disease progression and lethal outcome are not fully understood [ 2 , 4 ]. More than thirty parameters associated with COVID-19 mortality can be found in the literature, including older age, male gender, presence of certain comorbidities, gas exchange impairment, and various laboratory analyses (abnormalities of blood count and leukocyte formula, impaired coagulation status, and elevated biomarkers of inflammation, myocardial, renal, and hepatic impairment) [ 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 ]. However, the selection of significant predictors, their cut-off, and adjusted odds ratio (aOR) values differ across the literature.…”