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Editor, Senior Moderator
Diabetes Care
. 2020 Dec 2;dc202260.
doi: 10.2337/dc20-2260. Online ahead of print.
COVID-19 Severity Is Tripled in the Diabetes Community: A Prospective Analysis of the Pandemic's Impact in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes
Justin M Gregory[SUP] 1 [/SUP], James C Slaughter[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Sara H Duffus[SUP] 3 [/SUP], T Jordan Smith[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Lauren M LeStourgeon[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Sarah S Jaser[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Allison B McCoy[SUP] 5 [/SUP], James M Luther[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Erin R Giovannetti[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Schafer Boeder[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Jeremy H Pettus[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Daniel J Moore[SUP] 3 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Objective: To quantify and contextualize the risk for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related hospitalization and illness severity in type 1 diabetes.
Research design and methods: We conducted a prospective cohort study to identify case subjects with COVID-19 across a regional health care network of 137 service locations. Using an electronic health record query, chart review, and patient contact, we identified clinical factors influencing illness severity.
Results: We identified COVID-19 in 6,138, 40, and 273 patients without diabetes and with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, respectively. Compared with not having diabetes, people with type 1 diabetes had adjusted odds ratios of 3.90 (95% CI 1.75-8.69) for hospitalization and 3.35 (95% CI 1.53-7.33) for greater illness severity, which was similar to risk in type 2 diabetes. Among patients with type 1 diabetes, glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA[SUB]1c[/SUB]), hypertension, race, recent diabetic ketoacidosis, health insurance status, and less diabetes technology use were significantly associated with illness severity.
Conclusions: Diabetes status, both type 1 and type 2, independently increases the adverse impacts of COVID-19. Potentially modifiable factors (e.g., HbA[SUB]1c[/SUB]) had significant but modest impact compared with comparatively static factors (e.g., race and insurance) in type 1 diabetes, indicating an urgent and continued need to mitigate severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection risk in this community.
. 2020 Dec 2;dc202260.
doi: 10.2337/dc20-2260. Online ahead of print.
COVID-19 Severity Is Tripled in the Diabetes Community: A Prospective Analysis of the Pandemic's Impact in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes
Justin M Gregory[SUP] 1 [/SUP], James C Slaughter[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Sara H Duffus[SUP] 3 [/SUP], T Jordan Smith[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Lauren M LeStourgeon[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Sarah S Jaser[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Allison B McCoy[SUP] 5 [/SUP], James M Luther[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Erin R Giovannetti[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Schafer Boeder[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Jeremy H Pettus[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Daniel J Moore[SUP] 3 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 33268335
- DOI: 10.2337/dc20-2260
Abstract
Objective: To quantify and contextualize the risk for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related hospitalization and illness severity in type 1 diabetes.
Research design and methods: We conducted a prospective cohort study to identify case subjects with COVID-19 across a regional health care network of 137 service locations. Using an electronic health record query, chart review, and patient contact, we identified clinical factors influencing illness severity.
Results: We identified COVID-19 in 6,138, 40, and 273 patients without diabetes and with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, respectively. Compared with not having diabetes, people with type 1 diabetes had adjusted odds ratios of 3.90 (95% CI 1.75-8.69) for hospitalization and 3.35 (95% CI 1.53-7.33) for greater illness severity, which was similar to risk in type 2 diabetes. Among patients with type 1 diabetes, glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA[SUB]1c[/SUB]), hypertension, race, recent diabetic ketoacidosis, health insurance status, and less diabetes technology use were significantly associated with illness severity.
Conclusions: Diabetes status, both type 1 and type 2, independently increases the adverse impacts of COVID-19. Potentially modifiable factors (e.g., HbA[SUB]1c[/SUB]) had significant but modest impact compared with comparatively static factors (e.g., race and insurance) in type 1 diabetes, indicating an urgent and continued need to mitigate severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection risk in this community.
