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The main objective of this work was to analyze the diagnosis of patients admitted to a hospital related to lymphopenia during hospital stay. In addition, we investigated the relationship of lymphopenia with the four levels of the Severity of Illness (SOI) and the Risk of Mortality (ROM).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"sec002\"><jats:title>Method and findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>Lymphopenia was defined as Absolute Lymphocyte Count (ALC) &lt;1.0 x10<jats:sup>9<\/jats:sup>\/L. ALC were analyzed every day since admission. The four levels (minor, moderate, major and extreme risk) of both SOI and ROM were assessed. A total of 58,260 hospital admissions were analyzed. More than 41% of the patients had lymphopenia during hospital stay. The mean time to death was shorter among patients with lymphopenia on admission 65.6 days (CI95%, 57.3\u201373.8)<jats:italic>vs<\/jats:italic>89.9 (CI95%, 82.4\u201397.4), P&lt;0.001. Also, patients with lymphopenia during hospital stay had a shorter time to the mortality, 67.5 (CI95%, 61.1\u201373.9)<jats:italic>vs<\/jats:italic>96.9 (CI95%, 92.6\u2013101.2), P&lt;0.001.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"sec003\"><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>Lymphopenia had a high prevalence in hospitalized patients with greater relevance in infectious pathologies. 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