Type I Diabetes – Metabolic Disfunction and Change Induced by Sars-Cov 2 Infection

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disease characterized by a deficiency in insulin production and its action or both which leads to prolonged hyperglycaemia with disturbances in most metabolic processes inside the human body. In the case of infection with the new coronavirus SARS-COV-2 (COVID19) these patients have a higher risk of having a severe prognosis. Some studies suggest that diabetes may increase the risk of infection by two to three times, regardless of the presence of other conditions. The role of ferritin in correlation with the severity of COVID-19 patients is unknown. Research hypothesis. The level of blood ferritin. Serum ferritin levels appear to correlate with the severity of COVID-19 patients, which may make them a candidate for the role of biomarker. In this paper I want to show whether ferritin can be a marker of poor prognosis in patients with type I diabetes infected with SARS-COV 2 virus.