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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 2255586" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Hi [USER=471568]@DCB 2[/USER]. Totally understandable that you want to know why having diabetes puts us into the high risk category. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Many of us have been discussing this in various forums in here, and I have been following links from other members and following links on those links... so sorry if below isn't properly sourced (I wrote these things on the back of a used envelope!) as it should be, but here goes:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">1. The principle factor, from my understanding, why those with diabetes (whether metabolic/type 2, drug or surgery induced type two, or auto immune/type 1 not specified) sometimes don't do well when contracting Covid-19 is that having high blood glucose affects white cell function in a negative way, ie immunity is further compromised by high blood glucose, and it is harder with those with high blood glucose to fight the virus off.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">2. Body fat can affect the immunity response in a negative way, as obesity can bring about inflammation, and inflammation is associated with lowered immunity.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">3. Insulin resistance, the condition underlying many type two diabetes cases, if affected badly by infection, ie insulin resistance increases, making blood glucose and insulin levels increase, bringing about inflammation and compromising immunity.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">4. This from Dr Anne Peters in a talk on youtube - some diabetes medications can sometimes affect the person with diabetes with a Covid-19 infection negatively in that it makes them prone to ketoacidosis, a life-threatening condition for those with diabetes normally, when ketones and glucose levels get dangerously high (with low accessible insulin? - I believe so).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Those four issues are about, to some degree, what we call blood glucose control, however you personally do that. Body fat and insulin resistance I would say is not or not hugely under our conscious control, even if controlling those things are big things those with type two try to have in their control as much as possible.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">This is why those with diabetes are being told to keep their blood glucose as much as possible under control and as low as possible, in order to be able to fight off covid-19 with your immune system functioning as well as possible. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 2255586, member: 150927"] [FONT=Arial]Hi [USER=471568]@DCB 2[/USER]. Totally understandable that you want to know why having diabetes puts us into the high risk category. Many of us have been discussing this in various forums in here, and I have been following links from other members and following links on those links... so sorry if below isn't properly sourced (I wrote these things on the back of a used envelope!) as it should be, but here goes: 1. The principle factor, from my understanding, why those with diabetes (whether metabolic/type 2, drug or surgery induced type two, or auto immune/type 1 not specified) sometimes don't do well when contracting Covid-19 is that having high blood glucose affects white cell function in a negative way, ie immunity is further compromised by high blood glucose, and it is harder with those with high blood glucose to fight the virus off.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]2. Body fat can affect the immunity response in a negative way, as obesity can bring about inflammation, and inflammation is associated with lowered immunity. 3. Insulin resistance, the condition underlying many type two diabetes cases, if affected badly by infection, ie insulin resistance increases, making blood glucose and insulin levels increase, bringing about inflammation and compromising immunity. 4. This from Dr Anne Peters in a talk on youtube - some diabetes medications can sometimes affect the person with diabetes with a Covid-19 infection negatively in that it makes them prone to ketoacidosis, a life-threatening condition for those with diabetes normally, when ketones and glucose levels get dangerously high (with low accessible insulin? - I believe so). Those four issues are about, to some degree, what we call blood glucose control, however you personally do that. Body fat and insulin resistance I would say is not or not hugely under our conscious control, even if controlling those things are big things those with type two try to have in their control as much as possible. This is why those with diabetes are being told to keep their blood glucose as much as possible under control and as low as possible, in order to be able to fight off covid-19 with your immune system functioning as well as possible. [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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