Challenging Issues in the Management of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Diabetes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of Current Literature

The COVID-19 outbreak was declared a pandemic on March 2020. Many patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection have underlying chronic medical conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and hypertension. Patient-related outcomes are worse if there are associated comorbidities. We do not have e...

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Autores principales: Rahimi, Leili, Malek, Mojtaba, Ismail-Beigi, Faramarz, Khamseh, Mohammad E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Healthcare 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7338141/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32632851
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12325-020-01417-8
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Sumario:The COVID-19 outbreak was declared a pandemic on March 2020. Many patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection have underlying chronic medical conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and hypertension. Patient-related outcomes are worse if there are associated comorbidities. We do not have enough evidence regarding the most appropriate management of patients with diabetes during COVID-19 infection. Insulin resistance and CVD together increase the inflammatory state of the body, which can contribute to and perhaps mediate the increase of COVID-19 severity. Hence, in addition to management of dysglycemia, other CVD risk factors should be targeted. We explore the possible pathophysiologic links between diabetes and COVID-19 and discuss various options to treat dysglycemia, hypertension, and dyslipidemia in the era of COVID-19.

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