Glycemic Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes in Patients with COVID-19 Admitted to Referral Shahid Sayad Shirazi Hospital in Gorgan, North of Iran

Table 4

The relationship between patients’ blood sugar and corticosteroid medication in COVID-19 patients.

Corticosteroid	Mean FBS levels		Mean BS levels
	value^+	r^+	value^+	r^+
Drug dose (mg)	0.004	0.146	0.002	0.158
Duration of administration (day)	0.431	−0.04	0.130	−0.076
Dose × duration (mg  day)	0.335	0.049	0.699	0.019

FBS, fasting blood sugar; BS, random blood sugar; ⁺Spearman correlation coefficient test was used. Dose × duration, the number obtained by multiplying the dose of corticosteroid used (equivalent to dexamethasone (mg)) by the duration of use (days).