- Influenza hospitalization was associated with a 54% higher adjusted rate of diabetes diagnosis compared with matched nonhospitalized controls.
- The highest relative risk occurred within 90 days following discharge, when influenza-hospitalized patients had a 2.7-fold higher adjusted rate of diabetes diagnosis vs matched controls.
- Influenza-hospitalized patients also had higher rates of prediabetes compared with both matched controls and sepsis comparators.
- Among patients with preexisting prediabetes, 35% of all subsequent diabetes diagnoses occurred in this subgroup, which had nearly fourfold higher adjusted rates of diabetes development.
- Nearly 69% of influenza-hospitalized patients diagnosed with diabetes during follow-up subsequently required oral diabetes medications or insulin therapy.
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