Clinical characteristics and short-term prognosis of in-patients with diabetes and COVID-19: A retrospective study from an academic center in Belgium
Orioli et al.,
Clinical characteristics and short-term prognosis of in-patients with diabetes and COVID-19: A retrospective..,
Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews, doi:10.1016/j.dsx.2020.12.020
Small retrospective study of 73 diabetic patients in Belgium, 55 HCQ patients, showing HCQ RR 0.87,
p = 1.0.
Although the 13% lower mortality is not statistically significant, it is consistent with the significant 22% lower mortality
[18‑27%] from meta analysis of the
232 mortality results to date.
risk of death, 12.7% lower, RR 0.87, p = 1.00, treatment 8 of 55 (14.5%), control 3 of 18 (16.7%), NNT 47.
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Orioli et al., 14 Dec 2020, retrospective, Belgium, peer-reviewed, 9 authors.
Abstract: Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews 15 (2021) 149e157
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Clinical characteristics and short-term prognosis of in-patients with
diabetes and COVID-19: A retrospective study from an academic
center in Belgium
Laura Orioli a, d, *, Thomas Servais a, Leïla Belkhir b, Pierre-François Laterre c,
Jean-Paul Thissen a, d, Bernard Vandeleene a, Dominique Maiter a, d, Jean C. Yombi b, 1,
Michel P. Hermans a, 1
a
Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Avenue Hippocrate, 10, 1200, Brussels, Belgium
Department of Internal Medicine, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Avenue Hippocrate, 10, 1200, Brussels, Belgium
c
Department of Acute Medicine, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Avenue Hippocrate, 10, 1200, Brussels, Belgium
d
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Nutrition, IREC, UCLouvain, Avenue Hippocrate 55, 1200, Brussels, Belgium
b
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Article history:
Received 1 December 2020
Received in revised form
5 December 2020
Accepted 9 December 2020
Background and aims: We describe the characteristics and short-term prognosis of in-patients with
diabetes and COVID-19 admitted to a Belgian academic care center.
Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the data on admission from patients with known or newlydiagnosed diabetes and confirmed COVID-19. First, survivors were compared to non-survivors to study
the predictive factors of in-hospital death in patients with diabetes. Secondly, diabetic patients with
SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia were matched for age and sex with non-diabetic patients with SARS-CoV-2
pneumonia, to study the prognosis and predictive factors of in-hospital death related to diabetes.
Results: Seventy-three diabetic patients were included. Mean age was 69 (±14) years. Women accounted
for 52%. Most patients had type 2 diabetes (89.0%), long-term complications of hyperglycemia (59.1%),
and hypertension (80.8%). The case-fatality rate (CFR) was 15%. Non-survivors had more severe pneumonia based on imaging (p 0.029) and were less often treated with metformin (p 0.036). In patients with
SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia, CFR was 15.6% in diabetic (n ¼ 64) and 25.0% in non-diabetic patients (n ¼ 128),
the difference being non-significant (p 0.194). Predictive factors of in-hospital death were elevated white
blood cells count (HR 9.4, CI 1.50e58.8, p 0.016) and severe pneumonia on imaging (HR 25.0, CI 1.34
e466, p 0.031) in diabetic patients, and cognitive impairment (HR 5.80, CI 1.61e20.9, p 0.007) and
cardiovascular disease (HR 5.63, CI 1.54e20.6, p 0.009) in non-diabetic patients.
Conclusion: In this monocentric cohort from Belgium, diabetic in-patients with COVID-19 had mostly
type 2 diabetes, prevalent hyperglycemia-related vascular complications and comorbidities including
hypertension. In this cohort, the CFR was not statistically different between patients with and without
diabetes.
© 2020 Diabetes India. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
Diabetes
COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2
Obesity
Pneumonia
Late treatment
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