A systematic review approach in understanding the COVID-19 mechanism in diabetes and its progression to diabetic microvascular complications

Introduction: In uncontrolled hyperglycemia, lungs, tongue, oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal airways having increased glycosylated angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) can serve as good viral binding sites for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) leading to a greater tenden...

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Main Authors: Gyanendra Kumar Sonkar, Sangeeta Singh, Satyendra Kumar Sonkar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2022-01-01
Series:Journal of Diabetology
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Online Access:http://www.journalofdiabetology.org/article.asp?issn=2078-7685;year=2022;volume=13;issue=4;spage=322;epage=330;aulast=Sonkar