THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIABETES MELLITUS AND MORTALITY RISK IN COVID-19 PATIENTS IN PALEMBANG CITY

Abstract

COVID-19 is a new disease which is declared as a pandemic in March, 2020. The deaths caused by COVID-19 are assumed to be accompanied by several other risk factors. This reserch purpose aims to analyze the relationship between diabetes. This is quantitative research used secondary data from the Palembang City Epidemiological Surveillance System (SISUGI), with a cross-sectional research design. The sample was COVID-19 patient in Palembang City with complate data, from March 2020-march 2021 with 1227 people. The results of an examination on 1227 COVID-19 patients in Palembang show that 4.6% of them have diabetes mellitus and 5.6% of them passed away. Results of the bivariate test, it is found that there is a relationship between diabetes mellitus (P-value < 0.001), age over 60 years (P-value < 0.001), hypertension (P-value < 0.001), heart disease (P-value < 0.001), kidney failure (P-value < 0.001) and COPD (P-value = 0.06; CI = 1.4-16.7) with risk of death in COVID-19 patients in Palembang. Multivariate analysis show that there is a significant relationship between diabetes mellitus and risk of death in COVID-19 patients in Palembang (P-value < 0.001) after controlling the age, heart disease, hypertension, kidney failure and malignancy elements (RR= 6.113; 95% CI= 2.978- 12.54). There is a significant between diabetes mellitus with risk of death in COVID-19 patients in Palembang. This results of this research can serve as the foundation to prevent COVID-19 in at-risk groups - such as people with diabetes mellitus.