Concept

Diabetes and COVID-19: A pooled analysis related to disease severity and mortality

-risk of disease progression and mortality is significantly high in COVID-19 patients with diabetes than in those without diabetes

  • individuals with impaired glucose tolerance or diabetes to have 50–60% higher risk of pulmonary infection -diabetic cases consists of up to 50% COVID-19 cases -diabetes characterized by hyperglycemia has been reported to downregulate immune response and increased inflammation

0

1

Updated 2021-01-22

Tags

Articles from Elsevier Public Health Emergency Collection on the effects of human nutrition in fighting COVID-19

Chronic Diseases

SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)

Biomedical Sciences

Disability Studies

Social Science

Empirical Science

Science