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cord-355558-r6r1t47c	Shenoy, Akhil	Diabetes and covid-19: a global health challenge	2020-04-27		.txt	text/plain	1433	84	55	2 3 The clinical manifestations of the pneumonia have ranged from mild lower respiratory tract symptoms to the more severe manifestations of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and associated high mortality, 4 and the new disease has been named 2019 coronavirus disease or covid-19 by the WHO. Thus, almost one-third of patients with covid-19 admitted to the ICU with severe disease in USA have diabetes as an underlying health condition. The authors demonstrate that compared with non-diabetics, patients with diabetes and severe covid-19 exhibited a severe inflammatory response and were more likely to receive mechanical ventilation and have a higher mortality (and a reduced survival duration). Indeed, the mortality rate of 81% in patients with diabetes with severe covid-19 disease (and 48% in those without diabetes) is alarming, although the authors caution that the patient population hospitalized was sicker and with an overall higher mortality (56%) as compared with other published analysis.	./cache/cord-355558-r6r1t47c.txt	./txt/cord-355558-r6r1t47c.txt