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Editor, Senior Moderator
Acta Diabetol
. 2020 Jun 24.
doi: 10.1007/s00592-020-01546-0. Online ahead of print.
Diabetes Increases the Mortality of Patients With COVID-19: A Meta-Analysis
Zeng-Hong Wu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Yun Tang[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Qing Cheng[SUP] 3 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Aims: Nowadays, the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 caused by the novel coronavirus Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an emerging, rapidly evolving situation. Complications such as hypertension, diabetes, COPD, cardiovascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease are major risk factors for patients with COVID-19.
Methods: No meta-analysis has explored if or not diabetes related to mortality of patients with COVID-19. Therefore, this meta-analysis first aims to explore the possible clinical mortality between diabetes and COVID-19, analyze if diabetes patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 are exposed to the worst clinical prognostic risk, and to evaluate the reliability of the evidence.
Results: Our results showed a close relationship between diabetes and mortality of COVID-19, with a pooled OR of 1.75 (95% CI 1.31-2.36; P = 0.0002). The pooled data were calculated with the fixed effects model (FEM) as no heterogeneity appeared in the studies. Sensitivity analysis showed that after omitting any single study or converting a random effect model to FEM, the main results still held.
Conclusions: Our meta-analysis showed that diabetes increases the mortality of patients with COVID-19. These results indicated the disturbance of blood glucose in the COVID-19 patients. More importantly, this meta-analysis grades the reliability of evidence for further basic and clinical research into the diabetes dysfunction in COVID-19 patients.
Keywords: COVID-19; Diabetes; Meta-analysis; SARS-CoV-2.
. 2020 Jun 24.
doi: 10.1007/s00592-020-01546-0. Online ahead of print.
Diabetes Increases the Mortality of Patients With COVID-19: A Meta-Analysis
Zeng-Hong Wu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Yun Tang[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Qing Cheng[SUP] 3 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 32583078
- DOI: 10.1007/s00592-020-01546-0
Abstract
Aims: Nowadays, the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 caused by the novel coronavirus Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an emerging, rapidly evolving situation. Complications such as hypertension, diabetes, COPD, cardiovascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease are major risk factors for patients with COVID-19.
Methods: No meta-analysis has explored if or not diabetes related to mortality of patients with COVID-19. Therefore, this meta-analysis first aims to explore the possible clinical mortality between diabetes and COVID-19, analyze if diabetes patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 are exposed to the worst clinical prognostic risk, and to evaluate the reliability of the evidence.
Results: Our results showed a close relationship between diabetes and mortality of COVID-19, with a pooled OR of 1.75 (95% CI 1.31-2.36; P = 0.0002). The pooled data were calculated with the fixed effects model (FEM) as no heterogeneity appeared in the studies. Sensitivity analysis showed that after omitting any single study or converting a random effect model to FEM, the main results still held.
Conclusions: Our meta-analysis showed that diabetes increases the mortality of patients with COVID-19. These results indicated the disturbance of blood glucose in the COVID-19 patients. More importantly, this meta-analysis grades the reliability of evidence for further basic and clinical research into the diabetes dysfunction in COVID-19 patients.
Keywords: COVID-19; Diabetes; Meta-analysis; SARS-CoV-2.