Prognostic factors of patients with diabetes and Covid-19: evidence from the CORONADO study

The novel coronavirus, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), responsible for coronavirus: disease-2019 (Covid-19), has rapidly spread across the world leading to the death of more than 2 million people. Diabete is one of the risk factors for severe forms of the infection Identifying the most at-risk patients with diabetes was one o the objectives of the French multicenter study "CORONAvirus. SARS-CoV-2 and Diabetes Outcomes" (CORONADO). This. study, carried out during the first wave of the disease it March 2020, is the result of an unprecedented collaborative work, which allows the data collection of nearly 2 800 diabetic inpatients with Covid-19 infection. Age, male sex, obesity the presence of microvascular complications as well as the accumulation of comorbidities influence the prognosis o Covid-19 in our diabetic patients. We report here the mair lessons from observational studies, which has been carriec out for one year now in diabetic patients with Covid-19.