• Fahad Abdulaziz Al-Muhanna, Waleed Ibraham Ali Albakr, Arun Vijay Subbarayalu, Cyril Cyrus, Hend Ahmed Aljenaidi, Lamees Ali Alayoobi, and Othman Al-Muhanna.
• Nephrology Division, Department of Internal Medicine, King Fahad Hospital of the University, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia.
• Medicina (Kaunas). 2022 May 6; 58 (5).

AbstractGiven the current state of COVID-19, it is crucial to reveal its evolving relationship with and effect on different body organ systems and their diseases. The severity and outcome of COVID-19 have a very complex relationship, especially to the vital organs including the kidney, either in their state of health or disease. Additionally, it is well known that diabetes affects the kidney, leading to diabetic nephropathy. The kidney is also affected by different pathological and immunopathological reactions with COVID-19 infection, leading to acute kidney injury. Therefore, this review intended to extract the recent advances, updates, and discoveries about the effects of COVID-19 on diabetic patients and the relationship between COVID-19 invasion and the diabetic kidney and to discuss the current state of knowledge that has not yet been proved or disproved, leading to numerous controversial issues in looking for the effect of COVID-19 associated with diabetes mellitus on the human kidney.

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