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Chen (2020)
Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients With Diabetes and COVID-19 in Association With GlucoseLowering Medication
https://doi.org/10.2337/dc20-0660
https://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2020/05/13/dc20-0660.full-text.pdf

Results
Laboratory Findings
Albumin (1 unit increase vs. Not applicable)
COVID-19 in diabetes (severe/fatal)
Odds ratio: 0.910 (0.830-0.990) Adjusted model

Study characteristics

China

Retrospective cohort study

Medical records

136

136 diabetic patients aged 15–99 years who were admitted to the Central Hospital of Wuhan from 1 January 2020 and enrolled with a definite outcome (discharged from or died in the hospital); the data cutoff for the study was 17 March 2020.

Of the 904 cases, 421 patients (46.57%) were male and 483 (53.43%) were female. The median age was 56.0 years (IQR 39.0–67.0 years), with only three patients under 20 years old. All the patients were clinically diagnosed with COVID19, and 341 (37.72%) had confirmed COVID-19. 904 patients with COVID-19 (136 with diabetes), of the 136 patients with diabetes, 120 had type 2 diabetes, 1 had type 1 diabetes, 1 had gestational diabetes and was still pregnant at the time of admission, and 14 did not have diabetes specified in their medical records.

Total

11 Week


Results

COVID-19 in diabetes (severe/fatal)

93

136 patients with diabetes and COVID-19. Of the 136 patients, 93 patients had a poor prognosis.

Laboratory Findings

Albumin

Albumin, g/L

Not applicable

1 unit increase

Odds ratio

0.910 (0.830-0.990)

Yes

No

Yes

Age, albumin, creatinine, C-reactive protein (CRP) and glucose


Other information

Risk factors associated with poor prognosis in Patients with diabetes and COVID-19

Average

Yes

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