Big study reveals increased heart disease and diabetes risk after COVID-19
/in Scientific publications /by annickmannaertsNew Atlas (US), Tuesday 19 July 2022
Alongside the acute challenges of COVID-19 and the distinct persistent condition of long COVID, researchers are increasingly seeing that recovered patients suffer higher rates of stroke, diabetes and heart disease in the months following an infection. But the long-term outcomes from COVID-19 are still unclear. One of the largest longitudinal studies on the subject was published earlier this year. From Washington University, around 150,000 COVID cases were followed for up to 12 months. Those subjects were 55 percent more likely to experience a serious cardiovascular event in the year after recovering. This new research, led by a team from King’s College London, looked at health records from 428,650 COVID-19 patients in the United Kingdom. Each patient was demographically matched against a control patient and two specific health outcomes were tracked in the 12 months following COVID infection: new diagnoses of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. The new study was published in PLOS Medicine.
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004052
People with Diabetes are at Increased Risk of Flu Complications
/in Scientific publications /by annickmannaertsA new CDC study found that adults 65 years and older with diabetes had a one and a half to two times higher rate of severe flu-related complications compared with those without diabetes. Because people with diabetes are at increased risk of flu complications, annual flu vaccination and early treatment of flu illness with flu antivirals are especially important.
Digital intervention increases influenza vaccination rates for people with diabetes in a decentralized randomized trial
/in Scientific publications /by annickmannaertsThis prospective study based on a decentralised randomized trial investigates the effectiveness of digital intervention during the flu season 2018-2019. The results suggested that such intervention can improve the influenza vaccination rates for people with diabetes.
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