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cord-305405-me4gebvm	Conway, J.	Characteristics of patients with diabetes hospitalised for COVID-19 infection-a brief case series report	2020-09-21		.txt	text/plain	3184	199	51	Other features of patients with diabetes and COVID-19 infection included long duration of diabetes, less tight glycaemic control and common use of ACE inhibitors, ARBs and NSAIDs. In December 2019, a pneumonia like illness was first reported in Wuhan-China caused by a new coronavirus named corona virus disease-2019 (COVID-19) which then spread to cause a global pandemic. A meta-analysis of 8 Chinese studies to assess the prevalence of comorbidities in 46,248 infected patients with COVID-19, median age 46.0 years (51.6%) men, diabetes mellitus was the second most prevalent comorbidity (8%) after hypertension (17%) and higher than cardiovascular (5%) and respiratory diseases (2%). 4 In addition to the Chinese studies, subsequent international studies have demonstrated that diabetes was a frequent comorbidity and a risk factor for adverse outcomes of COVID-19 infection such as higher rates of ICU admissions and refractoriness to anti-viral and anti-inflammatory therapies.	./cache/cord-305405-me4gebvm.txt	./txt/cord-305405-me4gebvm.txt