Dr.Firoz Biswas
M.D.(AM)
How Diabetics Can Avoid the Deadly Consequences of COVID-19
COVID-19 is a deadly virus that targets the lungs of infected patients and causes severe respiratory distress. It is lung specific, meaning the virus contains only cell receptors for lung cells. This makes your lungs sticky which means there is a lot of breathing effort during the breath fight.
The only way for the virus to infect you is through your nose, mouth, or eyes when you touch them with your hands or an infected cough or sneeze that enters your body through these three openings. The secret to preventing infection is to avoid touching your face and avoiding close contact with other people, because you never know who might be infected.
People with type 2 diabetes (T2D), high blood pressure or obesity are more likely to get seriously ill or actually die if they are infected with Covid-19. However, a recent study published in the Journal of Cell Metabolism found that patients who have good control over their blood glucose levels are much more likely to survive a COVD-19 infection.
The survey was conducted in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, where the epidemic began. The test involved collecting data on 7,337 confirmed patients with COVID-19 admitted to 19 hospitals in Hubi. A total of 952 of these patients had T2D, of which 282 had well-controlled blood glucose levels.
Studies have shown that hospitalized patients with T2D and coronavirus require more medical assistance and intervention than individuals without underlying medical conditions. T2D patients were also more likely to have limb degeneration or death.
The study also found that T2D patients who had better control of blood glucose levels were less likely to have treatment interventions and / or ventilation. Also, those who were controlling their blood glucose levels properly were less likely to die and their CVD-19 health outcomes were much more likely to improve than those who had poor blood glucose levels.
So, as you can see, the answer to the question is very simple ... controlling your blood glucose levels will give you a much better chance of survival if you become infected.
If ever there was any incentive for diabetic patients to work together and start beating their diabetes, it would definitely be it. Perhaps it was about this time that we stopped blabbering on about this silent killer and started following a low-sugar, low-fat diet.
Research is underway into the relationship between type 2 diabetes and various coronaviruses.