Prognostic factors in patients with diabetes hospitalized for COVID-19: Findings from the CORONADO study and other recent reports.

ABSTRACT: Diabetes mellitus is challenging in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The prevalence of diabetes patients hospitalized in intensive care units for COVID-19 is two- to threefold higher, and the mortality rate at least double, than that of non-diabetes patients. As the population with diabetes is highly heterogeneous, it is of major interest to determine the risk factors of progression to a more serious life-threatening COVID-19 infection. This brief review discusses the main findings of CORONADO, a prospective observational study in France that specifically addressed this issue as well as related observations from other countries, mainly China and the US. Some prognostic factors beyond old age have been identified: for example, an increased body mass index is a major risk factor for req

SUBMITTER: Scheen AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7241378 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature