A recent large-scale study concludes that both type 1 and type 2 diabetes are associated with an increased risk of COVID-19-related in-hospital death.
It finds that one-third of coronavirus-related deaths in hospitals in England are individuals with diabetes. Over the last few months, researchers have rushed to gather information on the effects of a virus that, just last year, was unknown to science.
The virus, SARS-CoV-2, causes the disease COVID-19. Now, with millions of cases globally, scientists are trying to understand which factors have an association with poorer outcomes.
Among these factors is diabetes. As the authors of the recent study explain, early analyses from Italy, China, the United States, and the United Kingdom suggest