ALB and Hypertension: In this group, patients who died within six months of COVID-19 infection, compared to survivors, were more likely to be males (p=0.04); older than 60 years (p=0.01); and have hypertension hypertension (p=0.023), chronic kidney disease (p=0.019), hematological neoplasms (p≤0.001), low albumin (p≤0.001), hemoglobin < 10 g/dl (p=0.017), leucocytosis (p≤0.001), lymphocyte count < 500/μl (p=0.004); and have not received recent SACT (p=0.01) (Table 4).