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01-05-2021 | Vaccination | Research Letter
The disproportionate excess mortality risk of COVID-19 in younger people with diabetes warrants vaccination prioritisation
Authors:
Andrew P. McGovern, Nick J. Thomas, Sebastian J. Vollmer, Andrew T. Hattersley, Bilal A. Mateen, John M. Dennis
Published in:
Diabetologia
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Issue 5/2021
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Excerpt
To the Editor: Diabetes has consistently been shown to independently increase the risk of poor coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) outcomes [
1‐
3]. Rather than a simple additive effect of diabetes and age-related risk, recent large studies suggest a more complex relationship, with a disproportionately higher excess relative mortality risk in younger people with diabetes compared with older people with diabetes [
1,
3,
4]. Better understanding of the interaction between age and diabetes in the context of COVID-19 will further inform the complex prioritisation decisions around COVID-19 vaccination [
5]. …