Determinants of COVID-19 disease severity in patients having diabetes.

Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic discovered in 2019 was caused through Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). It is spreading rapidly as a communicable disease which has been declared as a pandemic by WHO. This virus was firstly reported in people of China who were associated with the Huanan seafood wholesale market of Wuhan. COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the lives of millions of people in India butdiabetic patients are at high risk of hospitalization and mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic. So, they need to deal effectively with the difficulty of its treatment as diabetes acts as a risk factor for the severity of this disease. This paper presents a statistical analysis of the information given by 125 diabetic patients in India. The effect of this information was determined through analysis of variance (ANOVA) using SPSS. Further, a bibliometric analysis of 51 Indian publications indexed in Scopus related to diabetic patients having COVID-19 was also conducted. The aim of this paper is to briefly study the effect of coronavirus on diabetic people as well as to study the recent research trends of present researches togive a better knowledge of COVID-19 in diabetic patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]