Thought I'd share this link (Doctor on Diabetes risk with Covid) - Guardian

[zoombapup]

Apologies if we're not meant to post links to external sites. Feel free to remove if that's the case.

Covid-19: how vulnerable are people with diabetes? – Science Weekly Podcast

Sarah Boseley speaks to Dr Dipesh Patel about the effects of Covid-19 on people with diabetes, including the role that glucose levels and a high BMI might play

www.theguardian.com

Listening to this Doctor now. Seems like he's got a reasonable understanding of Covid/DB risk factors now.

Does sound like abdominal fat is a big part of it. Not a massive surprise.

 

[zoombapup]

Oh, interesting. He just said that he's surprised that diabetes wasn't on the list of conditions that were in the 12 weeks lockdown. Had to wonder about that myself.

 

[Docb]

Started to listen to it - skip the first three minutes which are adverts - but quickly gave up. Seemed to be treating everybody with a diabetes diagnosis as the same. They are not. Maybe he got to that point later, maybe not.

 

[Toucan]

Very interesting, and several pointers to DUK given.
There are some interesting pointers to possible causes of increased vulnerability. As with many things associated with causes and solutions for dealing with Covid though, it is still very early days for making scientifically based conclusions.

I think my strategy remains the same:

I will do as much as I can to continue to keep my diabetes under control, to give myself the best chance if I do get Covid.
I'll also do everything I can to avoid getting it for as long as possible.
I'll accept that the chances are that I will get it one day - but the longer I can prolong it, the more chance there is that medical knowledge will have developed more knowledge of helpful treatments.

Exercise is thought to be a good help, so time to get off the forum and do some!

 

[Harry W]

So is he saying we don't have a chance if we catch it?

 

[mikeyB]

No, not unless you have a high BMI, though even that doesn’t guarantee bad symptoms. Diabetes of itself isn’t a particular risk to T2s getting CV. Combined with high BP, kidney problems, obesity it might well be. Those are all problems that increase your risk of coming to grief with CV even without diabetes.

That’s why diabetes isn’t on the government (advisers) vulnerable lists. Might be on the cover-all “associated conditions”, on the death announcements. Who knows?

 

[Harry W]

Thank you for that MikeyB, think I might be o.k. but will now try harder.