Biostatistical Investigation of Correlation Between COVID-19 and Diabetes Mellitus

  1. Zahra Eynizadeh
  2. Zahra Ameli
  3. Mahdieh Sahranavard
  4. Mobina Daneshparvar
  5. Mobina Abdollahi Dolagh
  6. Mahboobeh Roozkhosh
  7. Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi
  8. Maryam Azimzadeh Irani

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Abstract

COVID-19 is a highly infectious disease. Studies suggest that its severity is amplified in patients diagnosed with Diabetes Mellitus. In this study, the correlation between the prevalence of COVID-19 and Diabetes was analyzed at the regional and global scale using data extracted from WHO and IDF Diabetes Atlas. For the regional investigation data was assorted into ten regions including Central Asia, Middle east and western Asia, Africa, North America and the Caribbean, South east Asia, East Asia, Europe, South and Central America, South Asia and Oceania. The results show a positive correlation coefficient of 0.47 in Middle east and western Asia. While at the global scale analysis all the selected countries were considered together and a correlation coefficient of 0.32 was observed. This number was increased to 0.69 when the top most affected countries by COVID-19 were considered for the analysis. In order to investigate the time dependent relationship of the two diseases, the data was analysed in five windows of 45 days each since the beginning of pandemic. The results show an increasing pattern of the correlation coefficient in the last three windows. Overall, based on this study by increasing the prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus, the prevalence of COVID-19 cases may also increase.

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    Institutional Review Board Statementnot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

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    Calculation of C and D variables was carried out by Microsoft Excel 2016.
    Microsoft Excel
    suggested: (Microsoft Excel, RRID:SCR_016137)
    Statistical tests and analyses: Microsoft Excel 2016, Minitab 19 Statistical Software [19] and IBM SPSS Statistics [14] were used to analyse the data. 2.7 Graphs: The scatter plots were drawn using Minitab 19 Statistical Software [19].
    SPSS
    suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)
    Minitab
    suggested: (Minitab, RRID:SCR_014483)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).

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    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.

    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

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