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Complications of diabetes and old age increase mortality
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Studies have shown that diabetics need to be careful during the current pandemic, as their body copes with coronavirus worse and shows the most severe signs of the disease.
French scientists conducted the first study to examine the effect of coronavirus on the category of patients with diabetes in terms of predictions of cure and mortality. It turned out that for every tenth patient with such a diagnosis, COVID-19 is deadly. About this writes the journal Diabetologia.
In the study, scientists analyzed the data of 1317 patients with diabetes who were treated with COVID-19 in March 2020. 89% of people had type 2 diabetes. Observations showed that after a week, 20% of patients needed mechanical ventilation, and another 10% died.
The material states that among all people with diabetes received for treatment 65% were men, and their average age was 70 years.
“Blood sugar probably did not affect the patient’s prognosis, scientists said. But complications due to diabetes and old age increased mortality, ”scientists say.
It is reported that the study involved not so many patients with type 1 diabetes, however, among them under the age of 65 there was not a single fatal case.
“If we only evaluate the probability of mortality, then men with diabetes have a higher mortality rate than women,” the authors commented.
At the moment, the team continues to research and plans to publish the results of a study involving about 3 thousand patients with diabetes.
Scientists previously stated that patients infected with the new type of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, who use anti-malaria drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, are at increased risk of dying from the virus-caused COVID-19 disease.
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