CHENNAI: More than 18% of people discharged from the Government Medical College and Hospital in Omandurar have now developed diabetes, a hospital-based study has shown. Apart from pneumonia, blood clots, and other serious health concerns caused by moderate or severe infection of Sars-CoV-2, is triggering chronic diseases much earlier.
The hospital, which had an exclusive Covid-19 ward with 500 beds and runs a sequalae clinic. Of the 500 patients in the study, including 198 women, 92 of them developed diabetes after recovery. The mean random glucose level in the newly diagnosed diabetics was around 239 mg/dL compared to 114 mg/dL among non-diabetics.
