Steroid use during COVID-19 infection and hyperglycemia – What a physician should know

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The COVID-19 pandemic continues to challenge us. Despite several strides in management, steroids remain the mainstay for treating moderate to severe disease and with it arises challenges such as hyperglycemia. The review aims to enhance awareness amongst physicians on steroid us...

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Autores principales: Sosale, Aravind, Sosale, Bhavana, Kesavadev, Jothydev, Chawla, Manoj, Reddy, Sanjay, Saboo, Banshi, Misra, Anoop
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Diabetes India. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8189750/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34186344
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2021.06.004
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author Sosale, Aravind
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description BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The COVID-19 pandemic continues to challenge us. Despite several strides in management, steroids remain the mainstay for treating moderate to severe disease and with it arises challenges such as hyperglycemia. The review aims to enhance awareness amongst physicians on steroid use and hyperglycemia. METHODS: An advisory document describing various strategies for hyperglycemia management was prepared in the public interest by DiabetesIndia. RESULTS: The review provides awareness on steroids and hyperglycemia, adverse outcomes of elevated blood glucose levels and, advice at the time of discharge. CONCLUSIONS: The article emphasizes enhancing awareness on effective management of hyperglycemia during COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-81897502021-06-10 Steroid use during COVID-19 infection and hyperglycemia – What a physician should know Sosale, Aravind Sosale, Bhavana Kesavadev, Jothydev Chawla, Manoj Reddy, Sanjay Saboo, Banshi Misra, Anoop Diabetes Metab Syndr Review BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The COVID-19 pandemic continues to challenge us. Despite several strides in management, steroids remain the mainstay for treating moderate to severe disease and with it arises challenges such as hyperglycemia. The review aims to enhance awareness amongst physicians on steroid use and hyperglycemia. METHODS: An advisory document describing various strategies for hyperglycemia management was prepared in the public interest by DiabetesIndia. RESULTS: The review provides awareness on steroids and hyperglycemia, adverse outcomes of elevated blood glucose levels and, advice at the time of discharge. CONCLUSIONS: The article emphasizes enhancing awareness on effective management of hyperglycemia during COVID-19. Diabetes India. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021 2021-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8189750/ /pubmed/34186344 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2021.06.004 Text en © 2021 Diabetes India. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8189750/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34186344
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2021.06.004
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