TABLE 1.

Baseline characteristics of COVID‐19 patients with diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus

	Total		Alive		Expired		P value
Characteristics	3846		2893		953
Age, y
Median (IQR)	68	(59, 77)	66	(58, 75)	73	(64, 81)	<.0001
Gender (n [%])
Male	2291	59.57%	1657	57.28%	634	66.53%	<.001
Race (n [%])							.057
African American/Black	943	27.10%	718	24.82%	225	23.61%
Asian	361	10.40%	247	8.54%	114	11.96%
Declined	14	0.40%	10	0.35%	4	0.42%
Native American/Alaskan	23	0.70%	19	0.66%	4	0.42%
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander	5	0.10%	5	0.17%	0	0.00%
Other/multiracial	867	24.90%	656	22.68%	211	22.14%
Unknown	146	4.20%	111	3.84%	35	3.67%
White	1127	32.30%	817	28.24%	310	32.53%
Ethnicity							.205
Declined	253	6.58%	187	6.46%	66	6.93%
Hispanic or Latino	662	17.21%	510	17.63%	152	15.95%
Not Hispanic or Latino	2438	63.39%	1793	61.98%	645	67.68%
Unknown	133	3.46%	93	3.21%	40	4.20%
Insurance							.081
Private	1671	43.45%	1266	43.76%	405	42.50%
Public	1792	46.59%	1299	44.90%	493	51.73%
Self‐pay	23	0.60%	18	0.62%	5	0.52%
Smoking status							< .001
Former smoker	111	2.89%	15	0.52%	96	10.07%
Nonsmoker	2904	75.51%	2307	79.74%	597	62.64%
Smoker	261	6.79%	218	7.54%	43	4.51%

Abbreviations: COVID‐19, coronavirus disease 2019; IQR, interquartile range.