NEW CORONAVIRUS INFECTION (COVID-19) IN TYPE 2 DIABETES PATIENTS

Abstract

There has been a pandemic of new coronavirus infection COVID-19 in the world since 2019 characterized by severe pulmonary lesion and development of hypoxemia and death. The elderly people and the patients with severe associated pathology including type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) are especially susceptible to this infection. The aim of our research was to analyze the peculiarities of COVID-19 in 13 patients with T2D and co-morbidity hospitalized in Infection Hospital of Demskiy region of Ufa. All patients were admitted from other hospitals and had COVID-19 symptoms including severe weakness, dry rare cough and early symptoms of breath insufficiency. Conclusions: COVID-19 is significantly more severe in patients with co-morbidity and followed by the development of distress syndrome; T2D with numerous complications is the risk factor of unfavorable outcome of the disease; increase of platelets and acute lymphopenia are prognostically unfavorable factors; there were no complications of SARS-COV-2 medication treatment in T2D patients.