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ABSTRACT: Background
Diabetes has emerged as an important risk factor for COVID-19 adverse outcomes during hospitalization. We investigated whether the measurement of glycated albumin (GA) may be useful in detecting newly diagnosed diabetes during COVID-19 hospitalization.Methods
In this cross-sectional test accuracy study we evaluated HCPA Biobank data and samples from consecutive in-patients, from 30 March 2020 to 20 December 2020. ROC curves were used to analyse the performance of GA to detect newly diagnosed diabetes (patients without a previous diagnosis of diabetes and admission HbA1c ≥6.5%).Results
A total of 184 adults (age 58.6 ± 16.6years) were enrolled, including 31 with newly diagnosed diabetes. GA presented AUCs of 0.739 (95% CI 0.642-0.948) to detect newly diagnosed diabetes. The GA cut-offs of 19.0% was adequate to identify newly diagnosed diabetes with high specificity (85.0%) but low sensitivity (48.4%).Conclusions
GA showed good performance to identify newly diagnosed diabetes and may be useful for identifying adults with the condition in COVID-19-related hospitalization.
SUBMITTER: Chume FC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10947635 | biostudies-literature | 2024
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Chume Fernando Chimela FC Freitas Priscila Aparecida Correa PAC Schiavenin Luisa Gazzi LG Sgarioni Eduarda E Leitao Cristiane Bauermann CB Camargo Joíza Lins JL
PloS one 20240318 3
<h4>Background</h4>Diabetes has emerged as an important risk factor for COVID-19 adverse outcomes during hospitalization. We investigated whether the measurement of glycated albumin (GA) may be useful in detecting newly diagnosed diabetes during COVID-19 hospitalization.<h4>Methods</h4>In this cross-sectional test accuracy study we evaluated HCPA Biobank data and samples from consecutive in-patients, from 30 March 2020 to 20 December 2020. ROC curves were used to analyse the performance of GA to ...[more]