Tehran University of Medical Sciences Frontiers in Emergency Medicine 2717-3593 5 2 2020 06 21 e23 e23 Mahbube Ebrahimpur Elderly Health Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Moloud Payab Obesity and Eating Habits Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Molecular -Cellular Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Mahnaz Pejman Sani Department of Internal Medicine, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Bagher Larijani Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2020 05 21 2020 06 07 The COVID-19 pandemic is now an international concern. COVID-19 is first reported in Wuhan, China on 31 December 2019 and affects different people in different ways. Evidence suggests that people with underlying disease are at higher risk for more severe disease. People with diabetes are not only more likely than the general population to have COVID-19 but also they are among those high-risk categories that can have serious illness if they get the virus. https://fem.tums.ac.ir/index.php/fem/article/view/442 https://fem.tums.ac.ir/index.php/fem/article/download/442/316