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SUBMITTER: Varikasuvu SR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7456278 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Varikasuvu Seshadri Reddy SR Dutt Naveen N Thangappazham Balachandar B Varshney Saurabh S
Primary care diabetes 20200829 1
Globally, COVID-19 has become a major concern for the diabetic community. We conducted a pooled analysis and constructed a forest plot for the association between diabetes and COVID-19 progression in 47 studies. A random effects meta-analysis (Mantel-Haenszel method) was conducted to estimate the outcomes effect size as odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) using Review Manager Software version 5.3. COVID-19 patients with diabetes have a significantly higher risk of disease severity ...[more]