id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-027031-3olk1i7v Hillson, Rowan COVID‐19: diabetes and death. A call to action 2020-06-09 .txt text/plain 1601 126 74 'Adjusted for age, sex, deprivation, ethnicity, region and cardiovascular comorbidity, the odds ratio for dying in-hospital with COVID-19 in people with Type 1 diabetes compared to the population without known diabetes was 2.86 and 1.81 for people with Type 2 diabetes.' Deaths in people with diabetes have more than doubled during the COVID-19 epidemic 3 The study above only included people who died in hospital. Compared with people with normal renal function, the risk of COVID-19 related death with an eGFR of 30-44 was 2.16 in type 1 diabetes and 1.75 in type 2 diabetes. 6 In a US study of 1122 people with COVID-19 in hospital, 451 had diabetes (defined as HbA1c ≥6.5%) and/ or uncontrolled hyperglycaemia among whom 28.8% died compared with 6.2% of other patients. Type 1 and type 2 diabetes and COVID-19 related mortality in England: a cohort study in people with diabetes ./cache/cord-027031-3olk1i7v.txt ./txt/cord-027031-3olk1i7v.txt