ArticleJournal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology2020
Diabetic patients with COVID-19 infection are at higher risk of ICU admission and poor short-term outcome.
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237 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Association Between Diabetes and Mortality Among Adult Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19: A Cohort Study of Hospitalized Adults in Ontario, Canada, and Copenhagen, Denmark.Canadian journal of diabetes · 2023Pooled it
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- COVID-19 patients with acute pulmonary embolism have a higher mortality risk: systematic review and meta-analysis based on Italian cohorts.Journal of cardiovascular medicine (Hagerstown, Md.) · 2022Pooled it
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- Glycemic Alterations in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients: Hyperglycemia and Newly Detected Diabetes.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Non-communicable diseases, COVID-19 and labour market outcomes.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2026Article
- A real-world retrospective analysis comparing the effectiveness of Azvudine and Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir in COVID-19 patients with diabetes.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The Association Between Race and Risk of COVID-19 Hospitalization: Examining the Contribution of Social Determinants of Health.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Trends and Disparities in Mortality due to Diabetes Mellitus and Sepsis in the US Adults: 1999-2023.Endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism · 2025Article
- Trends in Diabetes Mellitus and Associated Mental Disorders-Related Mortality (1999-2023): A CDC WONDER Database Analysis.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Pre-Existing Diabetes Alters Pulmonary Inflammatory Gene Expression Priming for Injury.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe prognostic significance of diabetes mellitus (DM) in patients with coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19) remains unknown.
objectivesTo assess the risk of ICU admission and morality risk in diabetic COVID-19 patients. STUDY DESING: A database search was conducted to identify studies comparing diabetic COVID-19 patients hospitalized in intensive care unit (ICU) and those reporting the overall mortality of these patients published up to March 25, 2020 within MEDLINE, Scopus and Web of Science. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines were followed in abstracting data and assessing validity. Quality assessment was performed using the Newcastle-Ottawa quality assessment scale. The main outcome was the risk of ICU admission in diabetic patients with COVID-19 infection while the second was the mortality risk in overall diabetic COVID-19 patients. Data were pooled using the Mantel-Haenszel random effects models with odds ratio (OR) as the effect measure with the related 95 % confidence interval (CI). Statistical heterogeneity between groups was measured using the Higgins I
resultsAmong 1382 patients (mean age 51.5 years, 798 males), DM resulted to be the second more frequent comorbidities. Diabetic patients resulted to have a significant increased risk of ICU admission (OR: 2.79, 95 % CI 1.85-4.22, p < 0.0001, I
conclusionsDiabetic patients with COVID-19 patients are at higher risk of ICU admission and show an higher mortality risk.
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