{"id":11138,"date":"2020-04-03T13:02:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T11:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latam.patiadiabetes.com\/en\/?p=11138"},"modified":"2020-12-07T18:13:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T16:13:55","slug":"diabetes-coronavirus-risk-group-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latam.patiadiabetes.com\/en\/diabetes-coronavirus-risk-group-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Diabetes and coronavirus. Risk group and Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diabetes and COVID-19: a particularly at-risk group and some tips<\/h1>\n
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While the risk of being infected with coronavirus is the same for everyone, the consequences for people with diabetes could be much more severe<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The British Diabetes Association (Diabetes UK<\/a>)\u00a0 one of the most highly regarded institutions in the world’s diabetes field,\u00a0sustains that anyone with diabetes, whether type 1, type 2 or gestational, is at risk of developing a serious disease if they catch the infection, although in the end the way in which each patient may be affected will vary from person to person… so how does anyone else? Well, no, like anyone who doesn’t have diabetes, no.<\/p>\n

Everything points to the fact that the group of people with diabetes seems to be particularly sensitive, not so much because of the probability of being affected by the coronavirus infection, but probably because of suffering greater complications once infected. And even for having a significantly higher probability of death in relation to the general population without diabetes. Or at least that seems to be the case from the epidemiological data of a disease with which we have only been living for 4 months.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Still\u00a0a theory, but it could be feasible<\/h2>\n

A very recent publication in The Lancet on the most common comorbidities of people who have died in China from COVID-19 echoes three studies conducted to date:<\/p>\n