Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of the study population

From: Acute and long-term disruption of glycometabolic control after SARS-CoV-2 infection

 

All

Diabetic

Hyperglycaemic

Normoglycaemic

P value

n

551

151

253

147

 

M/F, n (%)

344/207 (62/38)

103/48 (67/33)

159/94 (65/35)

82/65 (51/49)

0.28

0.03§

0.17#

Age (years)

61 ± 0.7

67 ± 1.1

61 ± 0.9

55 ± 1.5

<0.001

<0.001§

<0.001#

BMI (kg/m2)

27 ± 0.5

29 ± 1.4

27 ± 0.7

27 ± 1.1

0.009

0.009§

0.009#

Hypertension, n

164

66

68

30

<0.001

<0.001§

0.18#

ACE/ARB, n

119

47

47

25

0.002

0.001§

0.67#

Time to clinical improvement, d

14.9 ± 0.5

20.2 ± 1.3

13.6 ± 0.6

12.8 ± 0.8

0.001

0.001§

0.88#

Death, n (%)

85 (15)

42 (28)

29 (11)

14 (9)

0.001

0.001§

0.86#

Time to death, d

11.4 ± 1.4

10.5 ± 2.1

11.7 ± 1.8

12.0 ± 1.9

0.009

0.009§

0.009#

IL-6 (pg ml−1)

79.1 ± 7.4

108.2 ± 18.7

74.6 ± 8.0

45.5 ± 9.5

0.14

0.007§

0.38#

  1. M, males; F, females; n, number of patients; ACE, angiotensin-converting enzyme; ARB, angiotensin receptor blocker. Data are expressed as the mean ± s.e.m. unless otherwise reported.
  2. P Diabetes versus hyperglycaemic;
  3. §P Diabetes versus normoglycaemic;
  4. #P Hyperglycaemic versus normoglycaemic.