Blood Glucose Control Strategy for Type 2 Diabetes Patients With COVID-19

Hiroyuki Futatsugi; Masato Iwabu; Miki Okada-Iwabu; Koh Okamoto; Yosuke Amano; Yutaka Morizaki; Takashi Kadowaki; Toshimasa Yamauchi

doi:10.3389/fcvm.2020.593061

Blood Glucose Control Strategy for Type 2 Diabetes Patients With COVID-19

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2020 Oct 28:7:593061. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2020.593061. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Hiroyuki Futatsugi¹, Masato Iwabu¹, Miki Okada-Iwabu^{1

2}, Koh Okamoto³, Yosuke Amano⁴, Yutaka Morizaki⁵, Takashi Kadowaki^{1

6

7}, Toshimasa Yamauchi¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
² Laboratory for Advanced Research on Pathophysiology of Metabolic Diseases, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Department of Infectious Diseases, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
⁴ Department of Respiratory Medicine, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
⁵ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
⁶ Department of Prevention of Diabetes and Life-Style Related Diseases, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
⁷ Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

Abstract

Since December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by a novel coronavirus has spread all over the world affecting tens of millions of people. Another pandemic affecting the modern world, type 2 diabetes mellitus is among the major risk factors for mortality from COVID-19. Current evidence, while limited, suggests that proper blood glucose control may help prevent exacerbation of COVID-19 even in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Under current circumstances where the magic bullet for the disease remains unavailable, it appears that the role of blood glucose control cannot be stressed too much. In this review the profile of each anti-diabetic agent is discussed in relation to COVID-19.

Keywords: COVID-19; antidiabetic agents; diabetes mellitus; exercise; healthy diet.

Publication types

Review