November 4, 2020
Preventing or managing diabetes has always been a top health priority. Now theres one more reason for taking diabetes seriously: COVID-19. If you catch the virus, having diabetes increases your risk of becoming severely ill. In general, people with well-controlled diabetes tend to heal better than those with poorly controlled diabetes, says Andrew Parziale, MD, an endocrinologist at 厙綻勛圖. They are also less likely to develop diabetes-related health problems that may make it harder to recover from COVID-19.