“Now we have more and more observations of hemotological patients, they are extremely unfavorable. Well, what everyone knows and talks about is diabetes patients and elderly patients with chronic heart failure, ”said Denis Protsenko, head doctor of the Kommunarka hospital.
According to the head physician of the City Clinical Hospital No. 52, Maryana Lysenko, obese patients are also at risk.
“And, of course, obese patients. This is the headache of all viral infections, ”said Lysenko.
The head physician of the First City Hospital named after Pirogov Alexey Svet supported the opinion of his colleagues.
“Still, I would put hematology and neurology in the first place,” he added.
He explained that we are talking about a blood disease.
Earlier, the Ministry of Health noted that men are heavier than women with COVID-19.
The department said that severe forms of the disease are more common in patients older than 60 years, as well as patients suffering from arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and obesity.
On May 14, RT and journalist Krasovsky, as part of the Epidemic documentary project, presented a film with the participation of the chief physicians of five Moscow clinics reprofiled for the treatment of COVID-19.