Diabetes como um fator associado ao óbito hospitalar por COVID-19  no Brasil, 2020

Thiago Santos Garces; George Jó Bezerra Sousa; Virna Ribeiro Feitosa Cestari; Raquel Sampaio Florêncio; Lara Lídia Ventura Damasceno; Maria Lúcia Duarte Pereira; Thereza Maria Magalhães Moreira

doi:10.1590/S1679-49742022000100021

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Thiago Santos Garces State University of Ceará https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1670-725X
George Jó Bezerra Sousa State University of Ceará https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0291-6613
Virna Ribeiro Feitosa Cestari State University of Ceará https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7955-0894
Raquel Sampaio Florêncio State University of Ceará https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3119-7187
Lara Lídia Ventura Damasceno State University of Ceará https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0496-5622
Maria Lúcia Duarte Pereira State University of Ceará
Thereza Maria Magalhães Moreira State University of Ceará https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1424-0649

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S1679-49742022000100021

Keywords:

Diabetes Mellitus, Coronavirus Infections, Mortality, Hospitalization, Cross-Sectional Studies

Abstract

Objective: to analyze the association between diabetes and hospital death from COVID19 in Brazil, between February and August 2020. Methods: Cross-sectional study with cases reported as flu-like syndrome in the Influenza Surveillance Information System, positive for COVID-19 and hospitalized. The magnitude of the association between diabetes and death was estimated by robust Poisson regression. Results: data from 397,600 hospitalized cases were analyzed, of which 32.0% (n=127,231) died. The prevalence of death among people with diabetes was 40.8% (PR=1.41 – Confidence Interval of 95% [95%CI]: 1.39;1.42). After adjusting for sociodemographic variables, signs and symptoms, comorbidities and conditions of severity, it was observed that death was 1.13 times more frequent among those with diabetes (95%CI 1.12;1.14). Conclusion: thirteen out of one hundred deaths from COVID-19 occurred in individuals with diabetes, highlighting the susceptibility of this population and the need to control this chronic disease.