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cord-278676-p13ev4cg	Pontiroli, Antonio E.	Is blood glucose or obesity responsible for the bad prognosis of COVID-19 in obesity -diabetes?	2020-07-27		.txt	text/plain	487	35	54	Pontiroli 1 , Lucia La Sala 2 , Davide Chiumello 1, 3 We read with interest the paper on clinical outcomes in patients with COVID-19 and pre-existing type 2 diabetes [1] . If it were only a matter of metabolic control, the COVID-19 disease would not be different from previous viral SARS epidemics, in which diabetes was a risk factor for bad prognosis [6] . However, in these studies [1, 4, 5] , body mass index (BMI) is not considered; when investigated, obesity was more prevalent than diabetes [7] , and increasing evidence shows that obesity is itself a bad prognostic factor as to admission to intensive care units, invasive ventilation, and death [8, 9] . Clinical characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 hospitalized patients with diabetes in the United Kingdom: A retrospective single centre study Diabetes as a risk factor for greater COVID-19 severity and in-hospital death: A meta-analysis of observational studies	./cache/cord-278676-p13ev4cg.txt	./txt/cord-278676-p13ev4cg.txt