People with diabetes are at particularly high risk of becoming seriously unwell and being hospitalised after contracting SARS-CoV-2

The relative risk of hospital admission vs matched controls was higher for individuals with T1DM than individuals with T2DM

A number of factors including BMI, blood pressure, taking metformin, socioeconomic situation and ethnicity have been identified in this study as potentially mediating that increased likelihood of hospital admission

For T2DM, the majority of factors related to increased risk of admission are common to the general population but are known to be more prevalent in T2DM

Nevertheless our analysis suggests that there are as yet unknown factors which are modulating that risk