Encountering COVID-19 as Endocrinologists

The world is entering an era of disaster and chaos due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. Since its first emergence in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, COVID-19 has swept through Asia and propagated throughout the world to Europe and North America. As of April 13, 1,773,084 people were infected and 111,652 people had died from COVID-19 globally, and new record levels of infection are being reported every day. Based on the data that have been amassed so far, the primary risk factors for a severe disease course or even mortality from COVID-19 are underlying diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. As the global prevalence of diabetes continues to increase, patients with endocrine diseases such as diabetes mellitus and those who are on long-term corticosteroid therapy due to adrenal insufficiency or hypopituitarism are at risk for a poor prognosis of COVID-19. As endocrinologists, we would like to briefly review the current knowledge about the relationship between COVID-19 and endocrine diseases and to discuss what we can do for the safety and health of our patients with endocrine diseases in this globally threatening situation..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:35

Enthalten in:

Endocrinology and Metabolism - 35(2020), 2, Seite 197-205

Sprache:

Englisch ; Koreanisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Eun-Jung Rhee [VerfasserIn]
Jung Hee Kim [VerfasserIn]
Sun Joon Moon [VerfasserIn]
Won-Young Lee [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adrenal insufficiency
Covid-19
Diabetes mellitus
Diseases of the endocrine glands. Clinical endocrinology
Endocrine system diseases
Endocrinologists
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

doi:

10.3803/EnM.2020.35.2.197

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

DOAJ076781011