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Maybe I'm understanding you wrong, but diabetes is a well-known risk factor for COVID-19. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/peop

• incrudible 6y ago
  It is, my point is that the study presents it as an outcome of COVID-19, next to outcomes like "death" and "re-hospitalizations".
  • morsch 6y ago
    I can see how you could read it that way, but I think they're just confirming the increased rates of covid with the three named pre-existing conditions. It never occured to me to understand it otherwise when I read it first.
    • incrudible 6y ago
      > I can see how you could read it that way, but I think they're just confirming the increased rates of covid with the three named pre-existing conditions. No, because that is in literally the objective: "To quantify rates of organ specific dysfunction in individuals with covid-19 after discharge from hospital compared with a matched control group from the general population." I wouldn't even rule out that COVID causes diabetes, but at the same time diabetes is commonly underdiagnosed, as is heart or liver disease.