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High Blood Sugar Ups COVID Risk, Even in Non-Diabetics

  • December 19, 2020

Patients with abnormally high blood sugar levels are more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19 — about 41% versus 16%. Those same patients are also more likely to be admitted to intensive care and more likely to need a ventilator, according to a new study.  Even if patients don’t have diabetes, the findings show that just having high blood sugar levels will increase their COVID risks. The study showed that among more than 11,300 noncritically ill adults with COVID-19 who...