Hyperglycemia and steroid use increase the risk of rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis regardless of COVID-19 hospitalization: Case-control study, India.

<h4<Background</h4<In the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, an increased incidence of ROCM was noted in India among those infected with COVID. We determined risk factors for rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis (ROCM) post Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among those never and ever hospitalized for COVID-19 separately through a multicentric, hospital-based, unmatched case-control study across India.<h4<Methods</h4<We defined cases and controls as those with and without post-COVID ROCM, respectively. We compared their socio-demographics, co-morbidities, steroid use, glycaemic status, and practices. We calculated crude and adjusted odds ratio (AOR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) through logistic regression. The covariates with a p-value for crude OR of less than 0·20 were considered for the regression model.<h4<Results</h4<Among hospitalised, we recruited 267 cases and 256 controls and 116 cases and 231 controls among never hospitalised. Risk factors (AOR; 95% CI) for post-COVID ROCM among the hospitalised were age 45-59 years (2·1; 1·4 to 3·1), having diabetes mellitus (4·9; 3·4 to 7·1), elevated plasma glucose (6·4; 2·4 to 17·2), steroid use (3·2; 2 to 5·2) and frequent nasal washing (4·8; 1·4 to 17). Among those never hospitalised, age ≥ 60 years (6·6; 3·3 to 13·3), having diabetes mellitus (6·7; 3·8 to 11·6), elevated plasma glucose (13·7; 2·2 to 84), steroid use (9·8; 5·8 to 16·6), and cloth facemask use (2·6; 1·5 to 4·5) were associated with increased risk of post-COVID ROCM.<h4<Conclusions</h4<Hyperglycemia, irrespective of having diabetes mellitus and steroid use, was associated with an increased risk of ROCM independent of COVID-19 hospitalisation. Rational steroid usage and glucose monitoring may reduce the risk of post-COVID..

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2022

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2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

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PLoS ONE - 17(2022), 8, p e0272042

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Englisch

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Sivaraman Ganesan [VerfasserIn]
Tarun Bhatnagar [VerfasserIn]
Mahalakshmy Thulasingam [VerfasserIn]
Marie Gilbert Majella [VerfasserIn]
Mathan Karuppiah [VerfasserIn]
S A Rizwan [VerfasserIn]
Arun Alexander [VerfasserIn]
Sonali Sarkar [VerfasserIn]
Sitanshu Sekhar Kar [VerfasserIn]
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Aparna Bhatnagar [VerfasserIn]
Prasanna Kumar S [VerfasserIn]
Vivekanandan M Pillai [VerfasserIn]
Pradeep Pankajakshan Nair [VerfasserIn]
Rahul Dhodapkar [VerfasserIn]
Pampa Ch Toi [VerfasserIn]
Rakesh Singh [VerfasserIn]
Nirupama Kasthuri [VerfasserIn]
Girish C P Kumar [VerfasserIn]
Saranya Jaisankar [VerfasserIn]
Vaibhav Saini [VerfasserIn]
Ankita Kankaria [VerfasserIn]
Anuradha Raj [VerfasserIn]
Amit Goyal [VerfasserIn]
Vidhu Sharma [VerfasserIn]
Satyendra Khichar [VerfasserIn]
Kapil Soni [VerfasserIn]
Mahendra Kumar Garg [VerfasserIn]
Kalaiselvi Selvaraj [VerfasserIn]
ShriKrishna B H [VerfasserIn]
Kranti Bhavana [VerfasserIn]
Bhartendu Bharti [VerfasserIn]
C M Singh [VerfasserIn]
Neha Chaudhary [VerfasserIn]
Vijayaravindh R [VerfasserIn]
Gopinath K [VerfasserIn]
Karthikeyan Palaninathan [VerfasserIn]
Simmi Dube [VerfasserIn]
Rita Singh Saxena [VerfasserIn]
Nikhil Gupta [VerfasserIn]
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S Priya [VerfasserIn]
Arulsundareshkumar [VerfasserIn]
Shama A Bellad [VerfasserIn]
Avinash Kavi [VerfasserIn]
Anilkumar S Harugop [VerfasserIn]
Kailesh Pujary [VerfasserIn]
Kirthinath Ballala [VerfasserIn]
Sneha Deepak Mallya [VerfasserIn]
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N K Balaji [VerfasserIn]
Raghuraj Hegde [VerfasserIn]
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Shalina Ray [VerfasserIn]
S Karthikeyan [VerfasserIn]
Sudha Ramalingam [VerfasserIn]
A Murali [VerfasserIn]
Sudhakar Vaidya [VerfasserIn]
Mohit Samadhiya [VerfasserIn]
Dhaval Bhojani [VerfasserIn]
Somu Lakshmanan [VerfasserIn]
Sudagar R B Singh [VerfasserIn]
Nataraj Pillai [VerfasserIn]
P Deepthi [VerfasserIn]
K Banumathi [VerfasserIn]
V Sumathi [VerfasserIn]
D Ramesh [VerfasserIn]
Sonam Poonam Nissar [VerfasserIn]
Khushnood M Sheikh [VerfasserIn]
Manisha N Patel [VerfasserIn]
Vipul Shristava [VerfasserIn]
Suresh S Kumar [VerfasserIn]
K Shantaraman [VerfasserIn]
Rajkamal D Pandian [VerfasserIn]
Manoj Murhekar [VerfasserIn]
Rakesh Aggarwal [VerfasserIn]

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