ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2017
Influenza Virus and Glycemic Variability in Diabetes: A Killer Combination?
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- Diabetes as a risk factor for greater COVID-19 severity and in-hospital death: A meta-analysis of observational studies.Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD · 2020Pooled it
- The Effects of Obesity on Outcome in Preclinical Animal Models of Infection and Sepsis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of obesity · 2020Pooled it
- The double burden of diabetes and global infection in low and middle-income countries.Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2019Pooled it
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- Longitudinal Stress Hyperglycemia Trajectories and Severe Outcome in Patients Hospitalized for Viral Respiratory Infections: A 72-Hour Phenotyping Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- High glycemic variability is associated with a reduced T cell cytokine response to influenza A virus.iScience · 2024Article
- The immunology of sickness metabolism.Cellular & molecular immunology · 2024Review
- A novel nanocomposite drug delivery system for SARS-CoV-2 infections.Nanoscale advances · 2024Article
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- Influenza vaccination for elderly, vulnerable and high-risk subjects: a narrative review and expert opinion.Internal and emergency medicine · 2024Review
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Abstract
Following the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus pandemic, numerous studies identified the striking link between diabetes mellitus and influenza disease severity. Typically, influenza virus is a self-limiting infection but in individuals who have a pre-existing chronic illness, such as diabetes mellitus, severe influenza can develop. Here, we discuss the latest clinical and experimental evidence for the role of diabetes in predisposing the host to severe influenza. We explore the possible mechanisms that underlie this synergy and highlight the, as yet, unexplored role that blood glucose oscillations may play in disease development. Diabetes is one of the world's fastest growing chronic diseases and influenza virus represents a constant and pervasive threat to human health. It is therefore imperative that we understand how diabetes increases influenza severity in order to mitigate the burden of future influenza epidemics and pandemics.
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