A Comparative Study of Severity Status of Covid-19 Infection In Diabetic and Non Diabetic Patients

Abstract

Background: COVID 19 definitely have created a catastrophic effect in each and every individual life. Diabetes mellitus being one of the most commonly found non communicable disease often neglected for specific care in spite of the highest complication rate and associated co morbidities. Objectives: To compare disease severity in diabetic and non-diabetic COVID 19 patients admitted in the hospital. Methods: This Retrospective Cohort study was carried out among the deceased Hospitalized COVID 19 patients admitted between March-June 2021 at Sri Venkateshwaraa Medical College Hospital and Research Centre Puducherry. The data were collected from the case records of the patients, 100 of the records became eligible to be taken in the study based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. Selected socio demographic parameters, category of COVID 19 based on severity, glucose parameters, necessity of invasive type of ventilation outcome of the disease were noted from the records. Discrete variables were expressed in proportion, continuous variables were expressed in mean ± SD. Chi-square test was used to determine the significance of association, p value < 0.05 was considered significant. Results: Among the 100 patient records eligible for the study, Majority of them were aged above 60 years 48(48%) and most of them were males 69(69%).The prevalence of Diabetes mellitus (65%)among COVID 19 patients was very high. Proportion of participants who had Invasive ventilation, severe form of disease and deceased patients was higher among Diabetes compared to non-diabetes participants and this difference was found to be statistically significant, having a p value of < 0.05 Conclusion: The present study concluded that prevalence of Diabetes mellitus among COVID 19 patients was higher and also the severity of COVID 19 was higher among Diabetes patients.