COVID – 19 and Diabetes Continued
COVID-19 Telehealth Silver Lining Telehealth for people with diabetes has become a necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic when social distancing, lockdowns, and stay-at-home orders have been implemented to prevent transmission of the virus. These precautions are especially important for people with diabetes to follow because their conditions make them more likely to become severely ill and get more […]
Research Corner
1 in 3 adults with type 2 diabetes may have undetected cardiovascular disease. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/1-in-3-adults-with-type-2-diabetes-may-have-undetected-cardiovascular-disease Diabetes linked to functional and structural brain changes. Covid increased the risk of diabetes. Prioritising Maori and Pacific patients for new diabetes drugs pays off http://www.voxy.co.nz/health/5/417649 More Stem Cell research into diabetes with studies in Kenya and the US. Advocacy Action: […]
Research News
USA – Screening for diabetes earlier could reduce racial and ethnic disparities in diagnosis, study finds. https://www.phillyvoice.com/diabetes-screening-racial-ethnic-disparities-asian-hispanic-black-diagnosis-study USA – Investigators from the Pediatric Diabetes Center at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone investigated outcomes disparities as they related to diabetes technology use among youth living with type 1 diabetes (T1D). https://www.ajmc.com/view/there-is-more-to-blame-than-tech-for-t1d-outcomes-disparities-investigators-argue Germany – Research suggests […]
COVID Deaths and Diabetes
People with diabetes were almost twice as likely to die with COVID-19 and nearly three times as likely to be critically of severely ill compared to those without the disease, according to a study. Researchers from the University of Aberdeen in the UK reviewed data from hundreds of thousands of people from all over the […]
Associations’ News
News from Associate Members of PDGN – national diabetes associations and other not-for-profits BDA Covid Action To overcome Covid restrictions, the Bermuda Diabetic Association has been providing on-line education updates, and innovative programmes for those with diabetes. The pandemic has revealed that more people are without employment and health insurance and requiring free diabetes medicine […]
U.S. Links to Increased Risk of Diabetes
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has conducted a study that appears to show children who have recovered from a COVID-19 infection are at an increased risk of developing Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. According to the results, researchers found a 2.6-fold increase in new diabetes cases among children who had recovered from […]
More News from Around the World Continued
Priority Groups Targeted in New Aussie Diabetes Strategy PDGN Patron, Hon Judi Moylan AO, is delighted that the national diabetes strategy, she and others helped to produce was released on WDD 21 by the Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care, Greg Hunt. Its aim is to reduce the incidence and impacts of the disease […]
Diabetes Makes Africa More Vulnerable to COVID Deaths
According to World Health Organisation (WHO) data, death rates from COVID-19 infections are much higher in patients with diabetes in Africa, where the number of people with diabetes is growing rapidly. A WHO analysis of data from 13 African countries found a 10.2 percent case fatality rate in COVID-19 patients with diabetes, compared with 2.5 […]
Covid-19: Fears over sharp rise in diabetes in India
A BBC report quotes Dr Rahul Baxi, a Mumbai based diabetologist saying: “The worry is that Covid-19 could trigger a tsunami of diabetes in India after the pandemic is over.” He said 8-10% of his patients with no history of diabetes who contracted Covid-19 continued to have high sugar levels months after recovery and were […]
Nutrition Concerns Expressed
UK Members of Parliament on a House of Commons Select Sub-Committee have welcomed a positive review of the UK foreign aid programme’s work on nutrition. But they raised questions about whether those achievements can endure, particularly as the review predicted the Covid-19 pandemic would cause a “huge increase in the number of people facing hunger […]
PDGN News
New Sponsorship Deal PDGN is delighted to welcome Dexcom as a sponsor for Global Advocacy News. Dexcom. Inc is a company that develops, manufactures and distributes continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems for diabetes management. Please note: THE INCLUSION OF THIRD-PARTY ADVERTISEMENTS DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN ENDORSEMENT, GUARANTEE, WARRANTY, OR RECOMMENDATION BY PDGN, AND WE MAKE […]
Associations’ News: COVID and Diabetes in Bermuda
COVID-19 hit Bermuda in March 2020, reports Debbie Jones, Chair of the Bermuda Diabetes Association. She said: “Like many other countries Bermuda did the best it could navigating itself around the advice from CDC, WHO and Public Health England. “The Bermuda Diabetes Association continued to serve the public during lockdown and provided those with diabetes […]
Black Fungus Link to Diabetes
News from India is showing people hospitalised for COVID -19, and particularly those who require oxygen therapy during COVID-19 illness, are at a much higher risk of Mucormycosis, often called Black Fungus. With half of all hospitalisations from COVID-19 in some countries being patients with diabetes as an underlying condition, this is an added risk. […]
COVID-19 and Diabetes
Almost half South African hospitalised COVID -19 patients have diabetes A YEAR of research at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa, has determined that people living with diabetes, especially Type 2 diabetes, are at risk for more severe Covid-19 complications and have a greater chance of being admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) […]
Latest Research News
Biomarkers breakthrough in diabetes research https://www.uu.se/en/news/article/?id=16386&typ=artike Belly fat diabetes warning sign for middle aged Japanese (and probably all) men. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/uosc-mmi012121.php Study into when insulin pump therapy should start in newly diagnosed Type 1 children. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(20)30339-4/fulltext More evidence of link between diabetes and stroke. First results of the DiabetRisk study – Over 8 percent of patients […]
Technology Corner
Teladoc Health and Dexcom have partnered to bring Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) technology and personalized insights to people with diabetes. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/01/11/2156095/0/en/Teladoc-Health-and-Dexcom-Bring-CGM-Technology-and-Personalized-Insights-to-People-with-Type-2-Diabetes-at-No-Cost.html According to a new report, Samsung will include an optical sensor for diabetes monitoring on its next Galaxy Watch. https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-galaxy-watch-diabetes-monitoring-1195471 Part funded by the EU Horizon fund, an academia and business project to develop […]
Associations’ News
News from Associate Members of PDGN – national diabetes associations and other not-for-profits The National Diabetes Services Scheme (NDSS) has launched a new campaign to encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with type 2 diabetes to re-engage with their diabetes healthcare teams and their diabetes management in 2021. Diabetes Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait […]
Obesity and COVID Severity
The German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) (pictured) has highlighted the interconnection of obesity and impaired metabolic health with the severity of COVID-19. In a Nature Reviews Endocrinology article the authors first provide information about the independent relationships of obesity, disproportionate fat distribution and impaired metabolic health with the severity of COVID-19. Then they discuss […]
COVID Diabetes Trigger
On top of this a growing body of research is now suggesting coronavirus could be a trigger for diabetes. In the early months of the pandemic, doctors in China and Italy suggested a link between new cases of diabetes and COVID-19. A study In November last year found over 14 per cent of people who […]
Young Type 2’s At Risk
As many studies have found, the risk of dying from COVID-19 increases with age, however a study by Exeter University has urged caution regarding younger people with type 2 diabetes. Researchers at the UK university found that a 40-year-old with the condition has the same likelihood of a fatal outcome after becoming infected with COVID-19 […]
COVID & Diabetes
Many studies and articles have been published identifying the link between COVID-19 and diabetes in relation to deaths and even the discovery that diabetes can be triggered by the virus. Data from France on COVID-19 patients with diabetes has indicated that one in five die within 28 days of hospital admission. This was the updated […]
United Kingdom: COVID-19 Greater Risk Among Asians
The UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published a report showing Asian people are up to five times more likely to contract Covid-19 than white people. The research also found that more than half of pregnant women with Covid-19 are from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds and warns that BAME communities could […]
Nigeria
Besides Covid-19 where cases approach 60,000 and over 1,000 deaths, Nigeria has a huge burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases. Covid statistics actually paint an impressive picture for a nation of 200 million people with a comparatively weak health system. The country is suffering from another health crisis that hardly came in the limelight. The […]
Africa News Special
High Blood Pressure and Diabetes top Covid Killers in Africa A World Health Organisation (WHO) analysis of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in 14 countries across Africa found that hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and asthma are the comorbidities most associated with Covid-19 deaths. In Kenya, around half of Covid-19 deaths were of people with NCDs while in […]
Diabetes and Covid – The Deadly Duo
More studies are being published into the clear link between diabetes and covid-19 and the dangers for people with diabetes who survive the virus suffering severe long-term adverse health effects. Studies from China, UK, Italy and the USA, have shown that people with diabetes have a higher risk of more adverse outcomes from COVID‐19 compared […]
Scotland: Covid and Diabetes
In the Scottish Parliament, David Stewart MSP made use of his position to ask questions about the correlation between deaths from Covid 19 and people with diabetes. Joe FitzPatrick (SNP), the Minister for Public Health’s reply was: “We know that this is a worrying time for people who live with diabetes. Their safety and the […]
Health Care Disparity Evidence Grows
Appalling disparities in health care have been revealed in several recent studies that the Covid 19 pandemic has magnified. The ‘Center for American Progress (CAP)’ has pulled together research from across the USA showing that it is home to stark and persistent racial disparities in health coverage, chronic health conditions, mental health, and mortality. The […]
When Two Pandemics Collide
Evidence is growing that people with an underlying condition of diabetes are the most at risk of death from Covid 19 and that 1 in 10 patients die within a week. As the virus has made its way around the world the amount of data and number of studies have grown. They show the mortality […]
Remember the Other Pandemic
Acknowledgement – https://defeatdiabetes.org/ If every person with diabetes lived in the same country it would be the third most populated on the planet and the numbers continue to grow. It is also a killer. In Europe alone one person dies ever six seconds of a diabetes related condition. The focus is on the Corona virus […]