: Diabetic and suffered from COVID-19? You might be at risk for heart failure #IndiaNEWS #Health Florida: It might be a matter of serious concern for patients of diabetes who have also suffered from

Diabetic and suffered from COVID-19? You might be at risk for heart failure #IndiaNEWS #Health
Florida: It might be a matter of serious concern for patients of diabetes who have also suffered from COVID-19. The infection may result in long-term health issues, which includes a higher risk for heart diseases.
College of Medicine researcher Dr. Dinender Singla, recently published an article in the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology. He minutely studied the mechanisms and side-effects of COVID-19 on patients with high-risk diabetes and the virus potential to advance the disease, leading to inflammation and heart failure.
He believes that the genetic makeup of patients with diabetes or those predisposed to the disease makes them more prone to post-COVID inflammatory conditions that impact the heart and brain.
We believe that COVID-19 can alter a persons genetic makeup which can enhance the proliferation of disease and cause further deterioration in diabetes and associated heart disease, explained Dr. Singla, who is the Advent Health Chair of Cardiovascular Science at the College of Medicine.
Our thinking is COVID-19 could have three major long-term effects on patients,Dr. Singla noted. One is cognitive dysfunction, which can lead to Alzheimers disease. Second, it can enhance diabetes in pre-diabetic patients or pre-diabetic conditions. Third, it can exacerbate complications of diabetes such as cardiomyopathy or muscle dysfunction. Dr. Singla theorizes that some diabetic patients who were infected with COVID-19 may have developed a different cellular composition in their blood compared to diabetic patients who never had COVID. The next step in his research is to analyze specific cellular differences in diabetics with and without a COVID infection.
Our goal is to look into whether there is a difference in blood composition or variations in cytokines proteins that affect communications between cells compared to the non-COVID diabetic patients, Dr. Singla said. If any differences are noted, then we would need to examine what kind of diseases they could potentially cause or enhance in those patients. COVID-19 has affected more than 600 million people worldwide, and because vaccines have made the virus not as alarming today as it was two years ago, Dr. Singla said there are still many unanswered questions about COVIDs long-term impact on health.
For example, if someone was genetically predisposed to developing heart disease or Alzheimers disease, if that person is affected by COVID-19, will that person develop heart disease or Alzheimers earlier than they were predisposed to? Dr. Singla said. Also how severe will their disease be and will it be different in people who contracted or did not have COVID-19? Dr.

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