CRP and diabetes mellitus: Other characteristics and factors identified during the acute phase of COVID-19 that are associated with a higher risk of development of fibrotic pulmonary lesions in the follow-up of COVID-19 patients in previous studies include a higher CT score of lung involvement, use of high-flow oxygen support, duration of mechanical ventilation, obesity, male sex, smoking, diabetes, and higher levels of C-reactive protein, lactate dehydrogenase, D-dimer, and fibrinogen [8, 20, 32, 36, 37].