Diabetes as risk factor to severity of dengue in naïve patients.

Bárbara F Dos SantosFlora A GandolfiBruno H G A MilhimFernanda S DouradoGislaine C D SilvaNathalia ZiniVictor Hugo Rezende GratãoMatheus Pascoal MarianiTamires Nasie AbbasPedro H C GarciaRodrigo S RochaNikos VasilakisMaurício L NogueiraCássia F Estofolete

Published in: medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences (2024)

We investigated and confirmed diabetes as a risk factor for severe dengue disease in individuals without prior dengue or Zika exposure. Our conclusions raise significant concerns given diabetes' ever increasing global prevalence and its potential impact on patients with or previous dengue exposure.

Keyphrases

zika virus
aedes aegypti
dengue virus
type diabetes
cardiovascular disease
glycemic control
risk factors
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
newly diagnosed
prognostic factors
early onset
skeletal muscle
atomic force microscopy
patient reported