Diabetics Must Reduce Carb Intake To 175 gms in 24 Hours
SRINAGAR: Persons having comorbidities including obesity, hypertension, diabetes can increase their survival chances by taking precautions and adopting Covid19 related guidelines perfectly and strictly, SKIMS endocrinologist, Dr Shariq Masoodi has told DIPR-JK.
Masoodi said that Covid infection is now common among people and the majority of the patients recover immediately in home isolation. However, he said that less than two per cent of the infected patients develop serious complications owing to underlying comorbidities like age factor, obesity, blood sugar, hypertension, cancer or any other disease and some of them may succumb to the infection. Such patients may need critical care including oxygen supply, ventilation and hospitalization.