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spinbaby

(15,088 posts) Sat Jun 13, 2020, 11:49 AM Jun 2020

And another Covid complication: diabetes

Not only does diabetes put you at a higher risk of complications from Covid-19; the disease can also cause diabetes.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2018688

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And another Covid complication: diabetes (Original Post) spinbaby Jun 2020 OP

Yup... A younger ER nurse w/ no prior history of DM presented in near ketoacidotic coma hlthe2b Jun 2020 #1

My husband has Type II.... ProudMNDemocrat Jun 2020 #2

hlthe2b

(102,120 posts)

1. Yup... A younger ER nurse w/ no prior history of DM presented in near ketoacidotic coma

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Sat Jun 13, 2020, 12:08 PM

Jun 2020

in a colleague's hospital just yesterday and rapidly progressed to COVID pneumonia. This is more widespread than previously appreciated and very disturbing.

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,722 posts)

2. My husband has Type II....

Reply to spinbaby (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2020, 12:13 PM

Jun 2020

Is on Insulin. He has been tested 3 times at the Mayo Clinic, me once. We are both clean.

We also take precautions to make sure we do not get it.

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