Patients with diabetes are at higher risk for severe illness from COVID-19

• It is currently uncertain whether people with diabetes are at higher risk of severe illness from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). • We found that diabetes was associated with an approximately 4-fold increased risk of having severe/critical COVID-19 illness. • This association was independent o...

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Autores principales: Targher, G., Mantovani, A., Wang, X.-B., Yan, H.-D., Sun, Q.-F., Pan, K.-H., Byrne, C.D., Zheng, K.I., Chen, Y.-P., Eslam, M., George, J., Zheng, M.-H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Masson SAS. 2020
Materias:
Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7255326/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32416321
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diabet.2020.05.001
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Sumario:• It is currently uncertain whether people with diabetes are at higher risk of severe illness from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). • We found that diabetes was associated with an approximately 4-fold increased risk of having severe/critical COVID-19 illness. • This association was independent of age, sex, obesity, hypertension and smoking. • These findings highlight the urgent need for a multidisciplinary team-based approach to management of this patient population.

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