SARS-CoV-2 Infection Related Hyperglycemia during hospitalization and three months post-discharge

Abstract Hyperglycemia or diabetes mellitus during COVID-19 has always been a great concern and heralds severe forms of the disease, we also don’t know whether this condition will continue as diabetes mellitus even after convalescence. For this purpose we conducted a study to investigate this condition and factors related to it in hospitalized patients and even three months post-discharge we followed them up. We gathered data from 202 patients that fulfilled our inclusion criteria, among them 100 patients were hyperglycemic. Patients in hyperglycemic status experienced significantly longer duration of hospitalization than normoglycemic patients and significantly showed more severe forms of the disease. During their follow up three months post-discharge for the investigation of glycemic status, 46 out of 97 patients were diagnosed with diabetes mellitus and have been taking anti-diabetic drugs while 29 patients only had normal glycemic status.