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2. At the same time, though metformin, a generic drug commonly used for managing blood sugar

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Sun Dec 6, 2020, 01:53 PM

Dec 2020

diabetes patients, was associated with significantly reduced risk of COVID-19 death in women.

The retrospective study published in the Lancet Healthy Longevity looked at about 6,000 patients with Type 2 diabetes or obesity who were hospitalized with COVID-19. It found that women who had filled a 90-day prescription before hospitalization had a 21% to 24% reduced likelihood of mortality compared with women in the study who weren’t taking the medicine. There wasn’t a significant reduction in mortality among men, according to results that originally were released in June.

https://www.startribune.com/as-case-counts-stabilize-covid-deaths-in-minn-are-surging/573304591/

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Higher blood sugar tied to COVID-19 death risk; rise in U.S. overdose deaths may have pandemic link [View all] Eugene Dec 2020 OP

Not surprising that prediabetes would be a risk factor. Phoenix61 Dec 2020 #1

At the same time, though metformin, a generic drug commonly used for managing blood sugar question everything Dec 2020 #2