Increased Serum Glucose is not a Covid-19 Mortality Predictor in Elderly Patients |Biomedgrid

COVID-19 is causing a current pandemic with high mortality, in which older age is an important risk factor. Few studies have examined whether risk factors for death by COVID-19 are similar in elderly and younger patients. We reviewed electronic hospital records of all consecutive adult patients admitted and analyzed reported COVID-19 mortality risk factors stratified by age group (under 60 vs. 60 and over). In univariate analyses admission date, sex, age, oxygen saturation, hyperglycemia (defined as admission glucose>180mg/dl) and lactate dehydrogenase were associated with COVID-19 mortality in younger patients, while only sex, oxygen saturation and lactate dehydrogenase were associated with mortality in the elderly. Mortality for younger subjects without hyperglycemia was 39.1%, while it was 66.7% in for younger subjects with hyperglycemia, similar to the mortality in the 60 and over age group (66.7% non-hyperglycemic, 60.3% hyperglycemic).