{"title":"Letter to the editor in response to the article 'Efficacy and safety of Saroglitazar in managing hypertriglyceridemia in type-2 diabetes: A meta-analysis' (Dutta et al.).","authors":"Ashok Jaiswal","doi":"10.1016/j.dsx.2020.10.026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.10.026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520602,"journal":{"name":"Diabetes & metabolic syndrome","volume":" ","pages":"2095"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.10.026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38569023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Subodh Kumar Pathak, Sanjay Pandey, Apurva Pandey, Abhijeet Ashok Salunke, Praveen Thivari, Harish V K Ratna, Jasneet Chawla
{"title":"Focus on uncommon symptoms of COVID-19: Potential reason for spread of infection.","authors":"Subodh Kumar Pathak, Sanjay Pandey, Apurva Pandey, Abhijeet Ashok Salunke, Praveen Thivari, Harish V K Ratna, Jasneet Chawla","doi":"10.1016/j.dsx.2020.09.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.09.017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Focus on uncommon symptoms of COVID-19: Potential reason for spread of infection.</p>","PeriodicalId":520602,"journal":{"name":"Diabetes & metabolic syndrome","volume":" ","pages":"1873-1874"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.09.017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38439556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is excess weight a risk factor for the development of COVID 19 infection? A preliminary report from India.","authors":"Piyush Ranjan, Arvind Kumar, Souradeep Chowdhury, Shivam Pandey, Aashish Choudhary, Aakashneel Bhattacharya, Amandeep Singh, Ravindra M Pandey, Naveet Wig, Naval K Vikram","doi":"10.1016/j.dsx.2020.09.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.09.012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and aim: </strong>This study explored the association between BMI and COVID-19 positive status in a tertiary care hospital from New Delhi.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Three hundred and seventy nine adult patients who presented to COVID-19 screening outpatient department of the hospital were interviewed over the phone regarding their body weight and height. The COVID-19 RT-PCR report of the patients was extracted from the hospital information system.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The mean BMI and the prevalence of obesity was observed to be higher in individuals who were detected to be COVID-19 RT-PCR positive as compared to those who were negative. With every one-unit increment in BMI above 23 kg/m<sup>2</sup>, the odds of being COVID-19 positive increased by 1.8 times among these patients.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings suggest a dose-response association between BMI and the odds of COVID-19 infection in individuals with excess weight.</p>","PeriodicalId":520602,"journal":{"name":"Diabetes & metabolic syndrome","volume":" ","pages":"1805-1807"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.09.012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38397104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does a younger host make the virus weaker? Presenting a new hypothesis.","authors":"Rajeev Jayadevan, A V Raveendran","doi":"10.1016/j.dsx.2020.09.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.09.011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>COVID-19 is a pandemic, resulting in large number of deaths all over the world.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The risk factors for mortality are not clearly understood. We are presenting a new hypothesis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Virus become more virulent as it passes through weaker hosts and vice versa.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Viruses become more virulent when it passes through weaker and older hosts. It will be worth analysing the transmission chain of COVID-19 from this perspective.</p>","PeriodicalId":520602,"journal":{"name":"Diabetes & metabolic syndrome","volume":" ","pages":"1821-1822"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.09.011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38405603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
María Alejandra Quispe Flores, Marcio José Concepción Zavaleta, Esteban Alberto Plasencia Dueñas, Mikaela Kcomt Lam
{"title":"The COVID-19 pandemic in developing countries: A new opportunity to improve the monitoring of patients with diabetes mellitus.","authors":"María Alejandra Quispe Flores, Marcio José Concepción Zavaleta, Esteban Alberto Plasencia Dueñas, Mikaela Kcomt Lam","doi":"10.1016/j.dsx.2020.09.023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.09.023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520602,"journal":{"name":"Diabetes & metabolic syndrome","volume":" ","pages":"1871-1872"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.09.023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38439555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comments on \"ARIMA modelling & forecasting of COVID-19 in top five affected countries\"(by Sahai et al.).","authors":"Tadeusz Kufel, Paweł Kufel","doi":"10.1016/j.dsx.2020.10.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.10.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520602,"journal":{"name":"Diabetes & metabolic syndrome","volume":" ","pages":"1989-1990"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.10.006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38514375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can 'Fit India movement' help meeting the target of reducing physical inactivity in India?","authors":"Satyajit Mohanty, Epari Venkatarao","doi":"10.1016/j.dsx.2020.10.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.10.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520602,"journal":{"name":"Diabetes & metabolic syndrome","volume":" ","pages":"1955-1956"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.10.004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38474207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LGBTQ care at the time of COVID-19.","authors":"Subhankar Chatterjee, Payel Biswas, Rishi Tuhin Guria","doi":"10.1016/j.dsx.2020.09.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.09.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520602,"journal":{"name":"Diabetes & metabolic syndrome","volume":" ","pages":"1757-1758"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.09.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38389955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Statin therapy did not improve the in-hospital outcome of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection.","authors":"Timotius Ivan Hariyanto, Andree Kurniawan","doi":"10.1016/j.dsx.2020.08.023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.08.023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and aims: </strong>The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) number of death cases is still increasing. One of the comorbidities associated with severe outcome and mortality of COVID-19 is dyslipidemia. Statin is one of the drugs which is most commonly used for the treatment of dyslipidemic patients. This study aims to analyze the association between statin use and in-hospital outcomes of COVID-19 infection.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We systematically searched the Google Scholar database using specific keywords related to our aims until August 1st, 2020. All articles published on COVID-19 and statin were retrieved. Statistical analysis was done using Review Manager 5.4 software.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 9 studies with a total of 3449 patients were included in our analysis. Our meta-analysis showed that statin use did not improve severity outcome [OR 1.64 (95% CI 0.51-5.23), p = 0.41, I<sup>2</sup> = 93%, random-effect modelling] nor mortality rate from COVID-19 infection [OR 0.78 (95% CI 0.50-1.21), p = 0.26, I<sup>2</sup> = 0%, fixed-effect modelling].</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Statin use did not improve in-hospital outcomes of COVID-19 infections. Patients with dyslipidemia should continue taking statin drugs despite COVID-19 infection status, given its beneficial effects on cardiovascular outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":520602,"journal":{"name":"Diabetes & metabolic syndrome","volume":" ","pages":"1613-1615"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.08.023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38342986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}