ArticleJournal of primary care & community health
Analysis of Glucose Levels in Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 During the First Phase of This Pandemic in West Texas.
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- Glycemic variability and the short-term mortality of hospitalized patients with COVID-19: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Pooled it
- Understanding the effects of COVID-19 on patients with diabetic nephropathy: a systematic review.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2024Article
- Assessment of the quality of life of COVID-19 recovered patients at the Ghana Infectious Disease Centre.PloS one · 2024Article
- Mean Blood Glucose Level During ICU Hospitalization is a Strong Predictor of the Mortality of COVID-19.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2024Article
- Nutritional management and clinical outcome of critically ill patients with COVID-19: A retrospective study in a tertiary hospital.Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2022Article
- Glucose variability is a marker for COVID-19 severity and mortality.Archives of endocrinology and metabolism · 2022Article
- Impact of COVID-19 on Kidney of Diabetic Patients.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Review
- Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Patients With COVID-19.The American journal of the medical sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundPatients with hyperglycemia during hospitalization, especially during ICU hospitalizations, often have worse outcomes, even if they do not have a premorbid diagnosis of diabetes. High glucose levels can provide insight into the underlying pathogenesis of a disease and can contribute to tissue injury. Some patients with COVID-19 have hyperglycemia during hospitalizations.
methodsThe Infectious Disease and Control office at University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas, provided a list of patients with a COVID-19 infection hospitalized between March 1 and May 15, 2020. The medical records were reviewed to collect information on age, gender, history of diabetes, and glucose levels on admission and through the first 7 days of hospitalization.
resultsThis study included 63 patients with a mean age of 62.1 ± 14.1 years. Thirty-five patients (55.6%) were males. The in-hospital mortality rate was 30.2%. The mean admission glucose level was 129.4 ± 57.1 mg/dL in patients who survived (N = 47) and 189.6 ± 112.2 mg/dL in patients who died during hospitalization (N = 16,
conclusionsPatients who died during hospitalization for COVID-19 had higher admission glucose levels than patients who survived. Larger differences between maximum and minimum glucose levels during the first 7 days of hospitalization were associated with increased mortality. These results suggest that high glucose levels identify patients at increased risk for mortality and warrant more study.
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