Djordje S Popovic, Nikolaos Papanas, Theocharis Koufakis, Kalliopi Kotsa, Wael Al Mahmeed, Khalid Al-Rasadi, Kamila Al-Alawi, Maciej Banach, Yajnavalka Banerjee, Antonio Ceriello, Mustafa Cesur, Francesco Cosentino, Alberto Firenze, Massimo Galia, Su-Yen Goh, Andrej Janez, Sanjay Kalra, Peter Kempler, Nitin Kapoor, Nader Lessan, Paulo Lotufo, Ali A Rizvi, Amirhossein Sahebkar, Raul D Santos, Anca Pantea Stoian, Peter P Toth, Vijay Viswanathan, Manfredi Rizzo
The growing amount of evidence suggests the existence of a bidirectional relation between coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), as these two conditions exacerbate each other, causing a significant healthcare and socioeconomic burden. The alterations in innate and adaptive cellular immunity, adipose tissue, alveolar and endothelial dysfunction, hypercoagulation, the propensity to an increased viral load, and chronic diabetic complications are all associated with glucometabolic perturbations of T2DM patients that predispose them to severe forms of COVID-19 and mortality...
March 8, 2023: Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology & Diabetes