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Objective: To investigate the correlation between concomitant diabetes mellitus and clinical features in patients with COVID-19 Methods: Fifty patients with COVID-19 admitted to the Sixth People\'s Hospital of Shenyang were divided into 2 groups with and without diabetes mellitus Indexes such as hospitalization days, duration of positive virus-PCR result, secondary infection, duration of fever, rate of liver dysfunction, and rate of cardiac injury were compared between 2 groups Results: The average hospitalization durations of diabetes group and control group were(24 0±6 8) and(18 4±5 9) days, respectively, and the duration of positive virus-PCR testing results were(16 0±4 5) and(12 3±4 4) days respectively, suggesting longer hospital stay and longer time for virus clearance in the diabetes group than those in the control group(both P0 05) Conclusion: Prolonged duration of positive virus-PCR result and average days of hospitalization in patients with COVID-19 may be associated with diabetes mellitus Copyright © 2020 by the Chinese Medical Association
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