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Diabetes and COVID-19 in-hospital mortality rates
Over the last few months, researchers have rushed to gather information on the effects of a virus that, just last year, was unknown to science. The virus, SARS-CoV-2, causes the disease COVID-19. Now, with millions of cases globally, scientists are trying to understand which factors have an association with poorer…
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STUDY: Antibiotics in First Year of Life May Up Risk for T1DM by Age 10
Posted by Physicians Weekly | Mar 19, 2020 THURSDAY, March 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Antibiotic prescriptions in the first year of life are associated with an increased risk for type 1 diabetes in childhood, according to a study published online March 4 in Diabetes Care. Mona-Lisa Wernroth, from Uppsala…
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News Recovering from coronavirus with type 1 diabetes
A man with type 1 diabetes who is recovering from coronavirus has shared his experience, explaining that for him, the condition was “no different to normal flu-type symptoms”. Andrew O’Dwyer developed the condition after he flew to Italy in February for a skiing trip. Speaking to BBC News, he said:…
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Why are some people at greater risk from coronavirus?
People with diabetes or heart disease are known to be more at risk from coronavirus, which is starting to spread rapidly in the UK and internationally. That is a concern for the 7.4 million Britons who have some form of cardiac or circulatory disease, which includes 4.8 million people with…
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Happy 2019 World Diabetes Day – November 14th 2019
We wish everyone a happy World Diabetes Day. We wish we didn’t have to celebrate this, but since we are, let’s all have some cake, bolus a little and make the best of it! Here’s hoping to more accessible treatments, a cure, and most of all, GOOD HEALTH!
