Association of clinical characteristics, antidiabetic and cardiovascular agents with diabetes mellitus and COVID-19: a 7-month follow-up cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The prognostic factors of long-term outcomes in hospitalized patients with diabetes mellitus and COVID-19 are lacking.

Methods

In this retrospective cohort study, we evaluated patients aged ≥ 18-years-old with the COVID-19 diagnosis who were hospitalized between Feb 20 and Oct 29, 2020, in the Sina Hospital, Tehran, Iran. 1323 patients with COVID-19 entered in the final analysis, of whom 393 (29.7%) patients had diabetes. We followed up patients for incurring in-hospital death, severe COVID-19, in-hospital complications, and 7-month all-cause mortality. By doing univariate analysis, variables with unadjusted P-value < 0.1 in univariate analyses were regarded as the confounders to include in the logistic regression models. We made adjustments for possible clinical

SUBMITTER: Pazoki M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8573568 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature