‘There is no reason to panic with diabetes, but there is reason to be alert and pay attention to the connection between COVID and diabetes’
A new coronavirus report has worried some.
It appears that there may be a link between the coronavirus and diabetes. 40% of people who died of coronavirus had diabetes. And people who already suffered from the disease are likely to have serious complications if they contract the virus.
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“There is no reason to panic about diabetes, but there is reason to be alert and pay attention to the connection between COVID and diabetes,” said Dr. Francesco Rubino, per Today.
Experts suggest that new or recent patients with COVID-19 should be aware of the symptoms of diabetes, which can be excessive thirst, blurred vision, fatigue and excessive urination.
“Any inflammatory state can cause insulin resistance,” Dr. Domenico Accili wrote in a commentary on Nature Metabolism by the director of the Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology Research at Columbia University in New York.
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Coronavirus has the ability to enter cells in the pancreas, liver and intestines, so it is very important to maintain normal sugar metabolism. Very high or very low blood sugar levels can cause type 1 or 2 diabetes.
More than 370 doctors worldwide have patient stories for a global COVID-19 patient record.
“Clearly, the vast majority of people who have COVID-19 will not have diabetes,” said Rubino. “(But) I think there is a problem … even a relatively infrequent event can become significant when COVID is so prevalent.”
Doctors and experts are still researching the discovery, but many patients with COVID-19 are related to the disease.
“The data says absolutely that it seems to be the case, and it is at a higher rate than we initially realized,” Dr. Robert Gabbay, scientific and medical director of the American Diabetes Association, said.
“It is very, very worrying. We are living in the middle of a diabetes epidemic, and literally the last thing we need is something that is raising rates even more. ”
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