{"id":927,"date":"2020-09-15T18:55:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T01:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=927"},"modified":"2020-09-15T18:55:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T01:55:20","slug":"fasting-blood-glucose-level-is-a-predictor-of-mortality-in-patients-with-covid-19-independent-of-diabetes-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/15\/fasting-blood-glucose-level-is-a-predictor-of-mortality-in-patients-with-covid-19-independent-of-diabetes-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Fasting Blood Glucose Level Is a Predictor of Mortality in Patients with COVID-19 Independent of Diabetes History"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Elevated fasting blood glucose (\u2265 7.0 mmol\/L), an indicator of pre-diabetes, was associated with COVID-19 mortality (HR=2.2), independent of diabetes history, in a Chinese cohort of 941 hospitalized patients. The authors conclude fasting blood glucose could be used to screen high-risk patients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cai et al. (Sept 10, 2020). Fasting Blood Glucose Level Is a Predictor of Mortality in Patients with COVID-19 Independent of Diabetes History. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.diabres.2020.108437\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.diabres.2020.108437<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elevated fasting blood glucose (\u2265 7.0 mmol\/L), an indicator of pre-diabetes, was associated with COVID-19 mortality (HR=2.2), independent of diabetes history, in a Chinese cohort of 941 hospitalized patients. The authors conclude fasting blood glucose could be used to screen high-risk patients. Cai et al. (Sept 10, 2020). Fasting Blood Glucose Level Is a Predictor&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/15\/fasting-blood-glucose-level-is-a-predictor-of-mortality-in-patients-with-covid-19-independent-of-diabetes-history\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}