42% of diabetics hospitalised for Covid-19 have died – WC health dept

Western Cape health head of department Dr Keith Cloete has said their data for the province revealed that 42% of people living with diabetes who were hospitalised for Covid-19 had died.“Of those patients of whom we already have an outcome, that is out of 2,201 patients, the mortality rate was 42%.”

A study in China showed that people whose diabetes was well controlled during their hospital stay, with a glucose reading of between 4 and 10, had a much better outcome than those who had poorly controlled diabetes with blood glucose greater than 10.Dave said it was imperative that diabetics are told that they should report earlier for Covid-19 testing and not wait till they have symptoms severe enough to be hospitalised.

Extra capacity has been created for this. Once the person has been diagnosed with Covid-19, they will be risk assessed. Those at highest risk will be admitted to one of the intermediate care facilities for an attempt to control their diabetes. “There is some preliminary data from the Sars epidemic 20 years ago showing that during that epidemic there was an increased risk of new-onset diabetes because the spike of that virus was toxic to beta cells .

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