COVID-19 and Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors: No Fear to Attempt?

Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes DOI: 10.1055/a-1235-5617Novel coronavirus infectious disease (COVID-19) has been recognised as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) 1. Mortality and morbidity are higher in elderly individuals and those with comorbidities, such as diabetes mellitus (DM), obesity, hypertension, respiratory tract diseases, coronary heart disease or cancer 1. Indeed, two thirds of individuals who died from COVID-19 had DM in Italy 2. [...] © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New YorkArticle in Thieme eJournals: Table of contents  |  Abstract  |  Full text
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