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

Table 5

The relationship between glycemic status during hospitalization and renal function in COVID-19 patients regardless of the previous history of DM.

Glycemic classification			sCr	eGFR
Hyperglycemia	Mean FBS levels	value^+	0.001	0.001
		r^+	0.250	−0.328
	Mean BS levels	value^+	0.001	0.001
		r^+	0.204	−0.310
Pre-DM	Mean FBS levels	value^+	0.031	0.020
		r^+	0.382	−0.411
	Mean BS levels	value^+	0.038	0.018
		r^+	0.388	−0.436
Normoglycemia	Mean FBS levels	value^+	0.010	0.462
		r^+	0.738	−0.248
	Mean BS levels	value^+	0.168	0.846
		r^+	−0.279	0.040

sCr, serum creatinine; eGFR, estimated glomerular filtration rate; Pre-DM, prediabetes mellitus; FBS, fasting blood sugar; BS, blood sugar; ⁺Spearman correlation coefficient test was used.