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0 0.5 1 1.5 2+ Mortality 51% Improvement Relative Risk Ventilation 41% Hospitalization 40% c19early.org/mf Wong et al. Metformin for COVID-19 Prophylaxis Is prophylaxis with metformin beneficial for COVID-19? Retrospective 39,616 patients in the USA Lower mortality (p<0.0001) and ventilation (p<0.0001) Wong et al., Diabetes Care, doi:10.2337/dc21-2186 Favors metformin Favors control
Glycemic Control and Clinical Outcomes in U.S. Patients With COVID-19: Data From the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Database
Wong et al., Diabetes Care, doi:10.2337/dc21-2186
Wong et al., Glycemic Control and Clinical Outcomes in U.S. Patients With COVID-19: Data From the National COVID Cohort.., Diabetes Care, doi:10.2337/dc21-2186
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N3C retrospective 39,616 COVID-19 patients with diabetes in the USA, showing lower mortality, ventilation, and hospitalization with metformin use.
risk of death, 51.0% lower, HR 0.49, p < 0.001, treatment 10,408, control 29,208, Cox proportional hazards.
risk of mechanical ventilation, 41.0% lower, OR 0.59, p < 0.001, treatment 10,408, control 29,208, adjusted per study, multivariable, RR approximated with OR.
risk of hospitalization, 40.0% lower, OR 0.60, p < 0.001, treatment 10,408, control 29,208, adjusted per study, multivariable, RR approximated with OR.
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Wong et al., 24 Feb 2022, retrospective, USA, peer-reviewed, 15 authors.
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Abstract: Diabetes Care Rachel Wong,1 Margaret Hall,1 Rohith Vaddavalli,2 Adit Anand,1 Neha Arora,3 Carolyn T. Bramante,4 Victor Garcia,1 Steven Johnson,5 Mary Saltz,1 Jena S. Tronieri,6 Yun Jae Yoo,1 John B. Buse,7,8 Joel Saltz,1 Joshua Miller,3 and Richard Moffitt,1 for the N3C Consortium* OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study is to evaluate the relationship between HbA1c and severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) with acute COVID-19 infection. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We conducted a retrospective study using observational data from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C), a longitudinal, multicenter U.S. cohort of patients with COVID-19 infection. Patients were ‡18 years old with T2D and confirmed COVID-19 infection by laboratory testing or diagnosis code. The primary outcome was 30-day mortality following the date of COVID-19 diagnosis. Secondary outcomes included need for invasive ventilation or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), hospitalization within 7 days before or 30 days after COVID-19 diagnosis, and length of stay (LOS) for patients who were hospitalized. RESULTS The study included 39,616 patients (50.9% female, 55.4% White, 26.4% Black or African American, and 16.1% Hispanic or Latino, with mean ± SD age 62.1 ± 13.9 years and mean ± SD HbA1c 7.6% ± 2.0). There was an increasing risk of hospitalization with incrementally higher HbA1c levels, but risk of death plateaued at HbA1c >8%, and risk of invasive ventilation or ECMO plateaued >9%. There was no significant difference in LOS across HbA1c levels. CONCLUSIONS 1 Department of Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 2 Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 3 Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 4 Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 5 Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 6 Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 7 Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 8 North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC Corresponding author: Rachel Wong, rachel. wong@stonybrookmedicine.edu Received 20 October 2021 and accepted 28 January 2022 This article contains supplementary material online at https://doi.org/10.2337/figshare.19119302. In a large, multicenter cohort of patients in the U.S. with T2D and COVID-19 infection, risk of hospitalization increased with incrementally higher HbA1c levels. Risk of death and invasive ventilation also increased but plateaued at different levels of glycemic control. J.M. and R.M. contributed equally. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has claimed >4 million lives worldwide since the first reported case of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) in December 2019 (1). Diabetes has been implicated as a risk factor for increased mortality and morbidity in patients with COVID-19 infection, with a higher prevalence of diabetes reported in patients with severe outcomes, including © 2022 by the American Diabetes Association. Readers may use this article as long as the work is properly..
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