Severe COVID-19 in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes in Sweden: A nationwide retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Whether infection with SARS-CoV-2 leads to excess risk of requiring hospitalization or intensive care in persons with diabetes has not been reported, nor have risk factors in diabetes associated with increased risk for these outcomes.

Methods

We included 44,639 and 411,976 adult patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes alive on Jan 1, 2020, and compared them to controls matched for age, sex, and county of residence (n=204,919 and 1,948,900). Age- and sex-standardized rates for COVID-19 related hospitalizations, admissions to intensive care and death, were estimated and hazard ratios were calculated using Cox regression analyses.

Findings

There were 10,486 hospitalizations and 1,416 admissions into intensive care. A total of 1,175 patients with diabetes and

SUBMITTER: Rawshani A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8086507 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature