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Diabetes, obesity, metabolism, and SARS-CoV-2 infection: the end of the beginning.

Daniel J. Drucker
- 02 Mar 2021 - 
- Vol. 33, Iss: 3, pp 479-498
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The increased prevalence of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular risk factors in people hospitalized with severe COVID-19 illness has engendered considerable interest in the metabolic aspects of SARS-CoV-2-induced pathophysiology as mentioned in this paper.
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This article is published in Cell Metabolism.The article was published on 2021-03-02 and is currently open access. It has received 145 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Diabetes mellitus.

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Female gender is associated with long COVID syndrome: a prospective cohort study

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Obesity prolongs the hospital stay in patients affected by COVID-19, and may impact on SARS-COV-2 shedding.

TL;DR: Subjects with obesity affected by COVID-19 require longer hospitalization, more intensive and longer oxygen treatment, and they may have longer SARS-COV-2 shedding.
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Type 1 diabetes onset triggered by COVID-19.

TL;DR: There was a short delay between COVID-19 infection and diabetes onset, and it remains to determine if the hyperinflammation/ cytokine storm described with this infection could accelerate the onset of type 1 diabetes in genetically susceptible individuals.
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Statin Use and In-Hospital Mortality in Patients With Diabetes Mellitus and COVID-19.

TL;DR: Statin use was associated with reduced in‐hospital mortality from COVID‐19 in patients with diabetes mellitus, and these findings, if validated, may further reemphasize administration of statins to patients with Diabetes mellitus during the CO VID‐19 era.
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