Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Aug 5: The International Diabetic Federation (IDF) has published the information that out of those who were infected with coronavirus and cured, 14.46 percent suffer from type 2 diabetes.

Research has shown that covid19 mostly damages lungs and kidneys. The immunity power of the body to fight against diseases, in its fight against the covid, reduces sugar level in the blood thereby hurting the liver.

IDF which has also shared this information with the World Health Organization (WHO), said in its report that many who get out of the clutches of Covid infection, encounter the problem of type 2 diabetes.

Liver damage

There are two kinds of diabetes. One is the type that has been with us since birth. The other is the inability to produce insulin or the situation in which the body is unable to absorb insulin. Dr Satish Shankar, who has coined the concept of Diabetes-free India, says that beta cells of the liver are subjected to widespread damage thereby blunting their activities.

Dr Sharath Bbu, lung specialist of Wenlock Hospital Mangaluru, says that Covid patients are given steroids. In such cases, sugar level does not get controlled among the diabetics. Steroids cannot be blamed for starting diabetes. But when patients on oxygen and ventilators support are given steroids, there is every chance of the sugar level in them going up. It also affects the heart and brain. But diabetes type 2 is witnessed in a large number of cases.

As far as diabetes is concerned, India is ranked second behind China in the world. In western countries, mostly diabetes type 1 is witnessed but in India, for the last some years, diabetes 2 is increasingly becoming evident. As much as 7.7 crore Indians suffer from diabetes. A study report of the WHO says that one in every six persons suffers from diabetes.