Interesting information that I was told by a doctor who works with corona virus patients I asked him about diabetics and the risks with corona and he stated that diabetics are 5x more likely to catch corona virus and 1.59x more likely to be hospitalised compared to the same person in your age group who dosent have it. How true it is I don’t know but it did come from someone I would expect to be in the know
Mmmm wonder what that is based on. Is it simply his assumption that because we have a pre exiting condition we are more likely to catch it, which does not seem right. Just because you are diabetic, you are nor more or less likely to catch it. Follow good hygiene and guidelines and you have the same chance as anyone else I would have thought
Maybe once we have the virus we are more likely to have more severe symptoms, maybe. But is that just supposition or based on facts
Interesting, was that type one?Interesting information that I was told by a doctor who works with corona virus patients I asked him about diabetics and the risks with corona and he stated that diabetics are 5x more likely to catch corona virus and 1.59x more likely to be hospitalised compared to the same person in your age group who dosent have it. How true it is I don’t know but it did come from someone I would expect to be in the know
Interesting, was that type one?
The problem (in my mind) is using the word “diabetes” as a catch all for suck a varied section of the population. If you look at it as a spectrum from well controlled to terrible, and for each type - so a younger type one who on the whole has non-diabetic levels and no other health problems other than a knackered pancreas would be a very different risk to a poorly controlled elderly type two with lots of complications, co-morbidities and golden syrup for plasma. Likewise a t2 with very good HbA1c would be a different level of risk to the T1 with a similar score who is in and out of hospital with DKA and constantly needing paramedics for severe hypos.
All the evidence I’ve seen so far (publications distributed to HCPs) suggests that we’re at no greater risk of catching the thing, but blood sugars would be a nightmare to keep sane if we do - and that’s where the problems lie. Hyperglycaemia can make an infection like this turn pretty nasty.
he didn’t state he just said diabetes. the problem we have is because no one knows for sure people are just giving their own opinions which doesn’t help us. One person believes if you have well managed diabetes you are at no more risk but others say we are vulnerable and we need to work at home. Another major concern is this virus seems to be a pot luck scenario on who gets severely sick even healthy people. My mum is a nurse in intensive care working with people who have covid 9 and there are 80 year old people who have serious underlying conditions and are surviving yet they have young people with no conditions who are seriously ill and dying. We all need to just do as much as we can to stay out of society as best we can because I don’t really want to find out!
Mmmm wonder what that is based on. Is it simply his assumption that because we have a pre exiting condition we are more likely to catch it, which does not seem right. Just because you are diabetic, you are nor more or less likely to catch it. Follow good hygiene and guidelines and you have the same chance as anyone else I would have thought
Maybe once we have the virus we are more likely to have more severe symptoms, maybe. But is that just supposition or based on facts
Hi,Although the reason we all get the flu jab each year IS because the Professionals deem us to be more at risk because of our condition, people over 65 get the flu jab because of age and so on and anyone younger because of conditions that put them at a greater risk. I do agree that the more we do to look after ourselves the lower the risk but the risk is still higher than a 'normal' person. The flu precautions are not based on supposition, the hospitals are full of at risk people with flu that then turns into pneumonia for example, so I don't think there is any reason to think Covid 19 won't follow the same pathway regardless of our ignorance of exactly how it works.
@Ross101 - What sort of doctor was that you were speaking to? I'm not questioning his information, as I don't have the statistics he might have been interpreting, but I imagine almost all doctors are working with COVID patients at the moment, in one capacity or another - knowingly or unwittingly.
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