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Review
. 2020 Sep:167:108382.
doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2020.108382. Epub 2020 Aug 25.

Hyperglycemia without diabetes and new-onset diabetes are both associated with poorer outcomes in COVID-19

Awadhesh Kumar Singh  1 , Ritu Singh  2
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Review

Hyperglycemia without diabetes and new-onset diabetes are both associated with poorer outcomes in COVID-19

Awadhesh Kumar Singh et al. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2020 Sep.

Abstract

Hyperglycemia with or without blood glucose in diabetes range is an emerging finding not uncommonly encountered in patients with COVID-19. Increasingly, all evidence currently available hints that both new-onset hyperglycemia without diabetes and new-onset diabetes in COVID-19 is associated with a poorer outcome compared with normoglycemic individuals and people with pre-existing diabetes.

Keywords: COVID-19; New-onset diabetes; New-onset hyperglycemia; Outcomes; SARS-CoV-2.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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