A study warns that diabetes must be considered as one of the aftermath of the coronavirus. This is indicated by research published in the journal ‘The Lancet Diabetes & Endicrology‘where it is concluded that people who have suffered covid present a increment in it risk development of this disease and other therapies antihiperglucemias.
The observationcarried out from three groups of participants, also deduces that the danger suffer from this anomaly Time.news is greater depending on the gravity of the virus.
Diagnostic Comparison
On the research are compared 181.280 new diagnoses of diabetes and/or initiation of antihyperglycemic drugs in people who suffered coronavirus between March and September 2020 con 4.118.441 non diabetics not diagnosed with covid during the same period. Another 4,286,911 people are added to the comparison without diabetes before of the pandemic, between March and September 2019.
Los results reveal that the infected presented a increment of the 40 % in the risk of suffering from this lack of insulin. Likewise, there is also a increase of the 85 % in the exhibition at the beginning of antihyperglycemic therapies. These data translate into 13,5 new diabetics by 1.000 people per year, as well as 12,3 new patients with these treatments by 1.000 people per year.
Different levels of exposure
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The results indicate that there is an increase gradual of the risk according to gravity of the virus. Separating between patients not hospitalizedin planta or in the Intensive Care Unit (UCI), it is concluded that in those phases after the acute exist higher exposure develop diabetes or start using antihyperglycemic drugs.
For this reason, The Lancet urges that the follow-up of people who have suffered covid include the ID y control from diabetes. Pedro Jose Pines Corralesmedical specialist Endocrinology y Nutrition in the University Hospital Complex of Albacete, assures the newspaper ‘Redacción Médica’ that “the controls hospital and outpatient must include the proactive search of new cases of diabetes.