{"id":957,"date":"2020-09-17T10:16:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T17:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=957"},"modified":"2020-09-21T09:12:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T16:12:51","slug":"mortality-rate-and-predictors-of-mortality-in-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-with-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/17\/mortality-rate-and-predictors-of-mortality-in-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-with-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortality Rate and Predictors of Mortality in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients with Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Older age (\u226570 years) and a high serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) level significantly predicted mortality among hospitalized COVID-19 patients with diabetes in South Korea. Diabetes was present in 55 (17%) of 324 patients who were hospitalized with COVID-19 at two tertiary healthcare facilities. The mortality rate was much higher among patients with diabetes than among those without (20% vs 5%). The authors suggest that COVID-19 patients with diabetes should be closely considered at high risk of COVID-19 mortality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Acharya et al. (Sept 13, 2020). Mortality Rate and Predictors of Mortality in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients with Diabetes. Healthcare. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/healthcare8030338\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/healthcare8030338<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Older age (\u226570 years) and a high serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) level significantly predicted mortality among hospitalized COVID-19 patients with diabetes in South Korea. Diabetes was present in 55 (17%) of 324 patients who were hospitalized with COVID-19 at two tertiary healthcare facilities. The mortality rate was much higher among patients with diabetes than among&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/17\/mortality-rate-and-predictors-of-mortality-in-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-with-diabetes\/\">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-957","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\/957","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=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}