Professor Elena Malysheva covers the issues of health and medicine for the people of Russia. Now, however, like other doctors, Elena Vasilievna pays special attention to coronavirus infection. The other day, she and her colleagues named people who are at risk for complications of the course of this disease.
Doctors all over the world today are at the forefront: the fight against coronavirus infection fell on their shoulders. Doctors beg people to limit social contacts, stay at home and not go out unnecessarily, and Russian scientists will begin testing a new drug in a week.
Doctor of Medical Sciences Elena Malysheva conducts educational activities from the screen of Channel One and through her Instagram account. The TV star answers questions about COVID-19, and also shoots explanatory videos, for example, about going to the store: how to do it so as not to get infected.
Recently, in the Health program, Elena Vasilievna touched upon a topic that has been discussed in the medical community for several weeks: does BCG vaccination protect against coronavirus infection and its negative consequences? The doctor herself very much believes that the theory has a solid foundation, and that is why mortality in Russia and countries where vaccination is mandatory is not as sad as in some European countries and the United States.
Also, Dr. Malysheva contacted the chief physician of one of the city's Moscow hospitals and asked the question, what are the concomitant diseases in the most severe patients with coronavirus? A colleague immediately named obesity. The words of the doctors were confirmed by the son of Elena Vasilievna, who works in a hospital in New York. He said that patients with a large weight suffer from many ailments, in particular, their lungs do not work well, so there are many such people in intensive care units of hospitals.
Malysheva once again recalled that being overweight is a high risk factor for cardiovascular, endocrine and other diseases. As it turned out, getting complications from coronavirus infection is much easier for an obese person than for someone whose BMI is normal. Still wanting to eat another donut?
