Blood sugar fluctuations in hospitalized COVID-19 patients tied to high mortality: Study
Wuhan, China: Researchers have found in a new study that blood sugar fluctuations in first week of hospitalized COVID-19 patients was linked to high morbidity and mortality.Therefore early optimization of blood sugar control strategies may be beneficial in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, suggests a recent study in the journal Diabetes Care.
Liangkai Chen, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, and colleagues aimed to investigate the association of in-hospital early-phase glycemic control with adverse outcomes among inpatients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China.
The data were obtained regarding consecutive patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in the Central Hospital of Wuhan between 2 January and 15 February 2020. It included patients with definite outcomes (death or discharge). Using electronic medical records, the researchers extracted demographic, clinical, treatment, and laboratory information of the patients. Also, data was collected daily on fasting glucose from standard morning fasting blood biochemistry to determine glycemic status and fluctuation (calculated as the square root of the variance of daily fasting glucose levels) during the 1st week of hospitalization.
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