Both high and low pre-infection glucose levels associated with increased risk for severe COVID-19: New insights from a population-based study

• Michal Shauly-Aharonov ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michal Shauly-Aharonov, Asher Shafrir

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, The Jerusalem College of Technology, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Asher Shafrir ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michal Shauly-Aharonov, Asher Shafrir

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Medicine, Meuhedet Health Services, Tel Aviv, Israel, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Gastroenterology, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2155-4913

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• Ora Paltiel,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Hematology, Faculty of Medicine, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Ein Karem Campus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Ronit Calderon-Margalit,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Rifaat Safadi,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Medicine, Liver and Gastroenterology Unit, Hadassah University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Roee Bicher,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Finance Division, Department of Information, Meuhedet Health Services Tel Aviv, Israel

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• Orit Barenholz-Goultschin ,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Endocrinology Institute, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Joshua Stokar

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yehoshua.stokar@mail.huji.ac.il

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Endocrinology, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4939-5800

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