COVID-19 in Diabetic patients in Ukraine: lessons for doctors and patients

Abstract

The feature of COVID-19 pandemics in Ukraine is that the age of patients is lower (50-59 years old, 40-49 years old and 30- 39 years old) than in China and other European countries (Fig. 1). Another feature of COVID-19 epidemiology in Ukraine is that virus cause disease in women (56.0%) more often than in men (44.0%). But there are more male patients in other countries [2]. Although there are more male deaths (51.7%) than female (48.3%) in Ukraine. Deaths have occurred in 18- 29 years old patients (1%), 30-49 years old patients (14%), in 50-69 years old patients (48%), in 70 y.o. and older patients (38%) [3]. 85% of all deaths were over 50 years of age. 79% of patients who died from COVID-19 had severe cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus (DM), neoplasms, renal diseases, respiratory disorders and obesity. In total, comorbidities (one or several) have been cardiovascular diseases (74%), diabetes mellitus (22%), lungs diseases (9%), neoplasms (8%), renal diseases (7%) [3]