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Covid-19: Another good reason to get control our blood sugars?

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Farxiga Tested as COVID-19 Tx; Intensify Metabolic Control for Prevention

“New research from Glytec suggests that in-hospital mortality is more than quadrupled in COVID-19 patients with diabetes and hyperglycemia.

"People with diabetes who have not yet been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus [which causes COVID-19] should intensify their metabolic control as needed as means of primary prevention of COVID-19 disease," according to expert panel guidance in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.”

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