Valuable hematological indicators for the diagnosis and severity assessment of Chinese children with community-acquired pneumonia: Prealbumin

Ning, Jingjing; Shao, Xiaonan; Ma, Yibo; Lv, Darong

Comparison of general status between mild CAP and severe CAP ( Table 3 ). The IgM antibody test for 155 patients with CAP showed that 38 patients with MP positive, 108 patients with MP negative, and 9 patients who declined to detect. There was no significant difference for MP positive rate between 2 groups (25.6% vs 28.6%, P = 0.774). By comparison of general status, it was shown that the RR in severe CAP group was significant higher than mild CAP group at the admission (P < 0.05). If considering the age, the criteria for tachypnea are as follows: ≥60 bpm (<2 months), ≥50 bpm (2 months-1 year old), ≥40 bpm (1-5 years old), ≥30 bpm (old than age 5 years). There was significant higher rate of tachypnea for severe CAP group (13.6%) than mild CAP group (1.5%) (x 2 = 5.439, P = 0.020). In addition, there were only 2 cases of pleural effusion and 1 case of myocardial damage in the severe CAP group.