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Blood sugar from COVID patients: the key that triggers mortality

anif's profile photo   11/08/2020 11:20 p.m.

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[...] His study, published in the magazine 'Annals of Medicine', collects the data of 11,312 patients of the first wave of the pandemic divided into three groups according to their degree of blood glucose (the concentration of free glucose in the blood)At the time of income: those with less than 140 mg/dl (milligrams per deciliter), those between 140 and 180 mg/dl, and those that exceed 180 mg/dl.The differences are shocking: while the mortality between those with less sugar is 15.7%, it rises to 33.7% in the intermediate group and reaches 41.1% among those with hyperglycemia.The glucose level is also related to a greater need for mechanical ventilation and the risk of entering the ICU.
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Thus the circle that leads to disaster is completed: the virus causes a sugar rise, the sugar rise causes more infection at the same time that an increase in the inflammatory response, and the most serious COVID patients are characterized, precisely, by sufferingan exaggerated inflammation."We are talking about hyperglycemia can be a mechanism that worsen the inflammatory response of patients with COVID, which is the one that ends up damage at lung level and other organs," says Gómez strikes.In diabetic patients, infection raises even more a high sugar level and therefore depart with disadvantage.However, in healthy subjects, the infection itself causes that elevation of sugar above normal, so that they can suffer the same problem, as evidenced by the study.
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anif
11/08/2020 11:20 p.m.

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Touch take care of ourselves more than ever! As if that were not enough what we have ... now it is time to dodge the covid as it is!

Thanks for sharing it @anif

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11/08/2020 11:56 p.m.

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