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COVID-19 may increase the risk of blot cots in women who are pregnant or taking estrogen with birth control or hormone replacement therapy, according to a new manuscript published in the Endocrine Society’s journal, Endocrinology. One of the many complications of COVID-19 is the formation of blood clots in previously healthy people. Estrogen increases the chance of blood clots during pregnancy and in women taking birth control pills or hormone...
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A study recently published in Diabetes Care focuses on individuals with type 1 diabetes who are suspected or confirmed to have contracted COVID-19 — the first U.S. based, multi-center study to examine patient characteristics and adverse outcomes among individuals with confirmed or suspected COVID-19. “While diabetes has been identified as a risk factor for severe...
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Endocrine News spoke to two early-career researchers who were called into action to treat COVID-19 patients full time. They share their inspiring stories of how they are coping with their new duties, how their research informed their patients’ care, and what they think the future of healthcare will look like post-pandemic. Endocrine scientists routinely spend...
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How clinicians treat patients has been drastically reimagined during the COVID-19 pandemic due to social distancing requirements. Since patients still need to see their doctors one way or another, telemedicine has filled the gap and has been embraced by both the healthcare community and patients alike. Chirag R. Kapadia, MD, is an endocrinologist at Phoenix...
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A series of papers to be published across a variety of journals provides a potential roadmap for treating COVID-19 patients within a hospital setting. It tells practitioners in these healthcare environments how to prepare for the unexpected. On April 30, an article appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine titled “Best Practices for a...
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Funding needed by start of new fiscal year to advance public health during pandemic The Endocrine Society is calling on Congress to pass the House Labor-HHS spending bill to ensure health agencies are funded before the start of Fiscal Year 2021 and to avoid the tumult and disruption of a continuing resolution and potential government shutdowns. The...
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People with endocrine disorders may see their condition worsen as a result of COVID-19, according to a new review published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society. “We explored the previous SARS outbreak caused by the very similar virus SARS-CoV-1 to advise endocrinologists involved in the care of patients with COVID-19,” says Noel Pratheepan Somasundaram...
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The theoretical threat from blood pressure medicine’s effects on COVID-19 caused many patients on these medications to make panicked calls to their healthcare providers. However, a group of professional associations and researchers moved quickly to counter this fear — and to recommend that patients infected with COVID-19 should continue taking renin-angiotensin system (RAS) blockers in...
