Clinical significance of prediabetes, undiagnosed diabetes and diagnosed diabetes on critical outcomes in COVID-19: Integrative analysis from the Japan COVID-19 task force.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a known risk factor for severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but the clinical impact of undiagnosed diabetes and prediabetes in COVID-19 are unclear particularly in Japan. We clarify the difference in clinical characteristics, including age, sex, body mass index and co-morbidities, laboratory findings and critical outcomes, in a large Japanese COVID-19 cohort without diabetes, with prediabetes, undiagnosed diabetes and diagnosed diabetes, and to identify associated risk factors.

Materials and methods

This multicentre, retrospective cohort study used the Japan COVID-19 Task Force database, which included data on 2430 hospitalized COVID-19 patients from over 70 hospitals from February 2020 to October 2021. The prevalence of prediabetes, und

SUBMITTER: Fukushima T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9538969 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature