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cord-273758-hhd8xnve	Ciardullo, S.	Impact of diabetes on COVID-19-related in-hospital mortality: a retrospective study from Northern Italy	2020-08-10		.txt	text/plain	3404	164	46	Nonetheless, it remains controversial whether diabetes could be considered an independent risk factor for greater severity of illness and death, with some studies showing a detrimental effect [5] [6] [7] and others a neutral influence [8] [9] [10] , also depending on adjustment for confounding variables. As expected, patients who experienced in-hospital death were older (78 vs 68 years, p < 0.001) and had a higher prevalence of most comorbidities including CVD (46.4% vs 32.5%, p = 0.007) and hypertension (78.1 vs 56.8%, p < 0.001), whereas only a trend was found for diabetes (23.2 vs 15.6%, p = 0.064) and no significant differences were found in gender distribution. In the present study we show that among patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in a single center in Northern Italy, a history of diabetes was associated with an increased mortality risk, which was independent from several confounding factors and comorbidities.	./cache/cord-273758-hhd8xnve.txt	./txt/cord-273758-hhd8xnve.txt