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The excess insulin requirement in severe COVID‐19 compared to non‐COVID‐19 viral pneumonitis is related to the severity of respiratory failure and pre‐existing diabetes

INTRODUCTION: Severe COVID‐19 has been anecdotally associated with high insulin requirements. It has been proposed that this may be driven by a direct diabetogenic effect of the virus that is unique to SARS‐CoV‐2, but evidence to support this is limited. To explore this, we compared insulin requirem...

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Autores principales: Lockhart, Sam M., Griffiths, Harry, Petrisor, Bogdan, Usman, Ammara, Calvo‐Latorre, Julia, Heales, Laura, Bansiya, Vishakha, Mahroof, Razeen, Conway Morris, Andrew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7995054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34268452
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/edm2.228