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Diabetes carries twice the risk of dying or becoming seriously ill if you become infected with coronary heart disease.
It is especially people with uncontrolled diabetes, several concurrent underlying diseases, or both, who are vulnerable to COVID-19, the researchers from the US, Australia, China and South Africa conclude.
It appears from new research published in the medical journal The Lancet.
To date, at least 1.3 million people have died of coronary heart disease, according to official figures from Johns Hopkins University.
No increased risk of infection
Trond Geir Jenssen, chief physician at OUS and medical adviser to the Norwegian Diabetes Association, emphasized to Dagbladet in April that people with diabetes are not at increased risk of becoming infected with coronavirus.
“People with well-regulated diabetes are not at increased risk for a severe course of covid-19 disease,” he says.
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Risk groups for the severe course of covid-19 disease are defined as the elderly (over 65 years), adults with underlying chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic lung disease, cancer and high blood pressure. People who smoke may also be at increased risk for severe coronavirus disease.
Nine out of ten had a chronic illness
From the period from March to May of this year, when 236 died from coronavirus, nine out of ten had a chronic disease in addition, according to figures from the National Institute of Public Health and the Registry of Causes of Death.
12 percent of them had diabetes.
In Norway, about 245,000 people have diabetes, and 200,000 of them have type 2 diabetes. About 30,000 have type 1 diabetes.
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Worldwide, about 425 million people have diabetes.
