Infectious disease specialist Dr. Yelena Myskina announced that infection with “Covid-19” can lead to diabetes, pulmonary fibrosis and thyroiditis.
And the specialist indicated, in an interview with the newspaper “Vecernaya Moskva”, that the results of recent laboratory studies showed that the main consequences for 15% of patients who were infected with “Covid-19” were the development of diabetes of its first and second types, as the disease developed in 2% after Infection with the emerging coronavirus.
She says, “That is, the pathogen was present in their bodies, and “Covid-19″ stimulated it to appear early. As for 13 percent, they developed diabetes for the first time as a negative result of infection with the emerging coronavirus.”
And she adds, pulmonary fibrosis is another disease that has spread widely among those who have been infected with the emerging coronavirus. And that some patients may develop thyroiditis, which later and quickly develops into a chronic disease.
According to her, the list also includes myocarditis, myocardial infarction and stroke.
“Unfortunately, the new coronavirus infects the heart, which leads to a heart attack and inflammation of the heart muscle,” she says. “Sclerosis of the heart is another dangerous consequence in which normal heart muscle tissue becomes inflexible, even stiff.”
And she adds, these consequences may appear during the post-Covid-19 syndrome. Therefore, it is best to perform the necessary examinations after recovering from the disease, even when the recoverer does not have any health symptoms.
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