Admission fasting blood glucose predicts 30-day poor outcome in patients hospitalized for COVID-19 pneumonia

Diabetes Obes Metab. 2020 Oct;22(10):1955-1957. doi: 10.1111/dom.14132. Epub 2020 Aug 4.

Authors

Bin Zhang¹, Shuyi Liu¹, Lu Zhang¹, Yuhao Dong², Shuixing Zhang¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
² Department of Catheterization Lab, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of South China Structural Heart Disease, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Blood Glucose / analysis*
COVID-19 / complications
COVID-19 / diagnosis*
COVID-19 / mortality
COVID-19 / therapy
Female
Hospital Mortality
Hospitalization / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Hyperglycemia / complications
Hyperglycemia / diagnosis
Hyperglycemia / mortality
Length of Stay
Male
Pandemics
Patient Admission* / statistics & numerical data
Pneumonia, Viral / complications
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis*
Pneumonia, Viral / mortality
Pneumonia, Viral / therapy
Prognosis
Retrospective Studies
SARS-CoV-2 / physiology
Severity of Illness Index

Substances

Blood Glucose