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Diabetes mellitus as a comorbidity in COVID-19 infection in the United Arab Emirates

Noha M. Elemam, Haifa Hannawi, Issa Al Salmi, Kashif Bin Naeem, Fahdah Alokaily and Suad Hannawi
Saudi Medical Journal February 2021, 42 (2) 170-180; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.2.25700
Noha M. Elemam
From the Sharjah Institute for Medical Research, College of Medicine (Elemam), University of Sharjah, Sharjah; from the Ministry of Health and Prevention, Department of Medicine (Hannawi H, Bin Naeem, Hannawi S); from Mohammed bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (Hannawi H), Dubai, United Arab Emirates; from Oman Medical Specialty Board (Issa Al Salmi); from The Royal Hospital (Issa Al Salmi), Muscat, Oman; and from Prince Sultan Military Medical City (Alokaily), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
B.Pharma, PhD
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Haifa Hannawi
From the Sharjah Institute for Medical Research, College of Medicine (Elemam), University of Sharjah, Sharjah; from the Ministry of Health and Prevention, Department of Medicine (Hannawi H, Bin Naeem, Hannawi S); from Mohammed bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (Hannawi H), Dubai, United Arab Emirates; from Oman Medical Specialty Board (Issa Al Salmi); from The Royal Hospital (Issa Al Salmi), Muscat, Oman; and from Prince Sultan Military Medical City (Alokaily), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Issa Al Salmi
From the Sharjah Institute for Medical Research, College of Medicine (Elemam), University of Sharjah, Sharjah; from the Ministry of Health and Prevention, Department of Medicine (Hannawi H, Bin Naeem, Hannawi S); from Mohammed bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (Hannawi H), Dubai, United Arab Emirates; from Oman Medical Specialty Board (Issa Al Salmi); from The Royal Hospital (Issa Al Salmi), Muscat, Oman; and from Prince Sultan Military Medical City (Alokaily), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Kashif Bin Naeem
From the Sharjah Institute for Medical Research, College of Medicine (Elemam), University of Sharjah, Sharjah; from the Ministry of Health and Prevention, Department of Medicine (Hannawi H, Bin Naeem, Hannawi S); from Mohammed bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (Hannawi H), Dubai, United Arab Emirates; from Oman Medical Specialty Board (Issa Al Salmi); from The Royal Hospital (Issa Al Salmi), Muscat, Oman; and from Prince Sultan Military Medical City (Alokaily), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Fahdah Alokaily
From the Sharjah Institute for Medical Research, College of Medicine (Elemam), University of Sharjah, Sharjah; from the Ministry of Health and Prevention, Department of Medicine (Hannawi H, Bin Naeem, Hannawi S); from Mohammed bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (Hannawi H), Dubai, United Arab Emirates; from Oman Medical Specialty Board (Issa Al Salmi); from The Royal Hospital (Issa Al Salmi), Muscat, Oman; and from Prince Sultan Military Medical City (Alokaily), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Suad Hannawi
From the Sharjah Institute for Medical Research, College of Medicine (Elemam), University of Sharjah, Sharjah; from the Ministry of Health and Prevention, Department of Medicine (Hannawi H, Bin Naeem, Hannawi S); from Mohammed bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (Hannawi H), Dubai, United Arab Emirates; from Oman Medical Specialty Board (Issa Al Salmi); from The Royal Hospital (Issa Al Salmi), Muscat, Oman; and from Prince Sultan Military Medical City (Alokaily), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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vol. 42 no. 2 170-180
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.2.25700
PubMed 
33563736

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received December 23, 2020
  • Accepted January 12, 2021
  • Published online February 9, 2021.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License (CC BY-NC), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Noha M. Elemam, B.Pharma, PhD,
  2. Haifa Hannawi, BDS, PhD,
  3. Issa Al Salmi, MBBS, PhD,
  4. Kashif Bin Naeem, MBBS,MRCP,
  5. Fahdah Alokaily, MBBS, PhD and
  6. Suad Hannawi, FRPC, PhD⇑
  1. From the Sharjah Institute for Medical Research, College of Medicine (Elemam), University of Sharjah, Sharjah; from the Ministry of Health and Prevention, Department of Medicine (Hannawi H, Bin Naeem, Hannawi S); from Mohammed bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (Hannawi H), Dubai, United Arab Emirates; from Oman Medical Specialty Board (Issa Al Salmi); from The Royal Hospital (Issa Al Salmi), Muscat, Oman; and from Prince Sultan Military Medical City (Alokaily), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Suad Hannawi, Ministry of Health and Prevention, Department of Medicine, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. E-mail: suad1{at}ausdoctors.net ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5689-6710
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