Diabetes and metabolic syndrome as risk factors for COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Clinical evidence exists that patients with diabetes are at higher risk for Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We investigated the physiological origins of this clinical observation linking diabetes with severity and adverse outcome of COVID-19.

Methods

Publication mining was applied to reveal common physiological contexts in which diabetes and COVID-19 have been investigated simultaneously. Overall, we have acquired 1,121,078 publications from PubMed in the time span between 01-01-2000 and 17-04-2020, and extracted knowledge graphs interconnecting the topics related to diabetes and COVID-19.

Results

The Data Mining revealed three pathophysiological pathways linking diabetes and COVID-19. The first pathway indicates a higher risk for COVID-19 bec

SUBMITTER: Marhl M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7205616 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul - Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature