Diabetes mellitus and the risk of post‐acute COVID‐19 hospitalizations—a nationwide cohort study
Authors' conclusion
In type 2 diabetes and diabetes of uncertain type, hospitalization with COVID-19 was associated with an increased risk of post-acute hospitalization for respiratory diseases, infections and death.
Study context
- Population
- All Danish citizens ≥18 years with diabetes at the start of the pandemic
- Exposure
- Hospitalized with COVID-19 vs not hospitalized with COVID-19
- Outcome
- Post-COVID-19 hospitalizations and death
- Follow-up
- To 4 January 2022
Methodological detailsDanish health registers, Cox proportional hazards model with time-varying exposure
- Danish health registers
- Cox proportional hazards model with time-varying exposure
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Post-acute hospitalization for respiratory diseases, T2D
Adjusted hazard ratio
1.71
95% CI 1.45–2.03
By group
Hospitalized with COVID-19vs Not hospitalized
aHR 1.71 (95% CI 1.45–2.03)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
T1D: post-acute hospitalizations and death
- Insufficient statistical power to identify differences in risk in T1D
Death, T2D
- HR of death
- 2.05 (95% CI 1.73-2.43)
Diabetes of uncertain type
- Results similar to those with T2D
Original publication
Diabetes mellitus and the risk of post‐acute COVID‐19 hospitalizations—a nationwide cohort study. Diabet Med. Published 9 November 2022. doi:10.
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