Doctors who worked with patients with COVID-19 noted that being overweight and diabetes increased the risk of death from this infection. Director General of the National Medical Research Center named after Almazov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Evgeny Shlyakhto explained to REN TV on October 15 why this is happening.
According to him, during the center’s profiling period, they treated a group of high-risk COVID-19 patients. He added that the center received data that correspond to the “world view” that diabetes and obesity are risk factors for severe disease.
Shlyakhto noted that in obese people, an increased volume of adipose tissue negatively affects respiratory functions, such tissue can also be deposited in the diaphragm.
“On the other hand, diabetes mellitus, which contributes to the development of insulin resistance, impaired microcirculation,” he said.
The doctor said that with coronavirus, all this can lead to a violation of the biological properties of blood and to inflammation.
Another aggravating factor in coronavirus is vitamin D deficiency, which, according to Shlyakhto, was detected in more than 71% of patients with COVID, and in 36.3% – a severe deficiency.
According to the headquarters as of October 15, 13,754 new cases of COVID-19 were detected in Russia over the past day. Over the entire period of the epidemic, 1,354,163 cases were registered in 85 regions of the country. 23,491 deaths were recorded, 1,048,097 patients recovered.
Earlier, on September 23, Oksana Drapkina, the chief freelance specialist of the Russian Ministry of Health for therapy and general practice, named diseases that worsen the prognosis of patients with coronavirus. These are high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes.
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