Experts Reveal Why Diabetes Triggers Severe Covid-19, Average Pneumonia

JawaPos.com – People with diabetes are considered to be at high risk or most vulnerable to COVID-19 since the pandemic began. If infected, the symptoms will be severe. Data shows that as many as 40 percent of deaths from Covid-19 patients have comorbidities or have diabetes.

An analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of data from 10,647 people who died from Covid-19 between February and May 2020 found that 40 percent had diabetes. Another study published in BMJ Open analyzed data from 1.3 million Covid-19 patients and found that having diabetes increased the risk of death by 14 percent.

Research has also linked diabetes to the development of more severe COVID-19 and a person’s risk of being put on a ventilator in the ICU if they catch the virus. Researchers are still trying to decipher why diabetes increases a person’s risk of developing severe COVID-19.

“Diabetics are generally more susceptible to infection,” says William Schaffner, MD, an infectious disease specialist and professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, MD.

The relationship between Diabetes and Covid-19 means that they experience pneumonia and other complications. “This is true from urinary tract infections to pneumonia to influenza,” he said.

“The entire metabolic state of diabetes impedes the patient’s ability in various ways to ward off viral and bacterial attacks,” he said.

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Editor : Mohamad Nur Asikin

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