id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-255461-i5kw4z5g D'Marco, Luis Diabetic Kidney Disease and COVID-19: The Crash of Two Pandemics 2020-05-06 .txt text/plain 998 58 47 Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in diabetes and estimations report that ∼30-40% of DM patients will develop DKD. In this regard, chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with most of the excess of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in patients with diabetes. Due to how quickly it has spread, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease in 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, will probably emerge as one of the most relevant infectious diseases of this century. Evidence reported that COVID-19 represents a real threat for patients with comorbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular, renal, or hepatic impairment (6, 7) . Indeed, more severe cases with higher rates of mortality have been reported in older patients and in those with chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular disease. Anticoagulant treatment is associated with decreased mortality in severe coronavirus disease 2019 patients with coagulopathy Kidney disease is associated with in-hospital death of patients with COVID-19 ./cache/cord-255461-i5kw4z5g.txt ./txt/cord-255461-i5kw4z5g.txt