#COVID2019 Qs #GP land (scroll)

RE #risk #stratification for pt on Prednisolonehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Rightwards arrow" aria-label="Emoji: Rightwards arrow">risk factor for #immunosuppressionhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Rightwards arrow" aria-label="Emoji: Rightwards arrow">COVID19 risk factor

I& #39;m learning from each time need ask GP v specific Q for ind pt

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙋‍♀️" title="Happy woman raising one hand" aria-label="Emoji: Happy woman raising one hand">Is Pred dose acceptable risk thus:
Select *agree all* or disagreehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Rightwards arrow" aria-label="Emoji: Rightwards arrow">comment

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙋‍♀️" title="Happy woman raising one hand" aria-label="Emoji: Happy woman raising one hand">Are you finding a pattern with how your diabetic pts deteriorate?

Anecdotally, colleagues& I are seeing even young T2DM individuals where diabetes is not well controlled commonly suffer more severely/& more likely to deteriorate than otherwise expected.

What are you seeing?

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙋‍♀️" title="Happy woman raising one hand" aria-label="Emoji: Happy woman raising one hand">Are you finding a pattern with how your HTN pts are coping with #COVID19?

Anecdotally, not yet seeing as much sn impact of uncontrolled HTN or pt taking the two at risk types of anti-HTN meds yet:
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✔" title="Heavy check mark" aria-label="Emoji: Heavy check mark">ACE inhibitors
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✔" title="Heavy check mark" aria-label="Emoji: Heavy check mark">Angiotensin receptor blockers

But are you seeing an impact?

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙋‍♀️" title="Happy woman raising one hand" aria-label="Emoji: Happy woman raising one hand">Are you finding pattern w/ how your other chronic condition pt groups are coping #COVID19?

Anecdotally, asthma appears to be the only condition out of this group in which I& #39;ve seen few more severe enough to considerhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Rightwards arrow" aria-label="Emoji: Rightwards arrow">ED cases cf to rest of this pt group (but small sample size)

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙋‍♀️" title="Happy woman raising one hand" aria-label="Emoji: Happy woman raising one hand"> #GPs are you finding a pattern w/ how your frail pts *of any age* are coping with #COVID19?

Thus far, anecdotally seeing just older adults struggle more if frail.

My sample size of whom I attend to small, but less frail appear to be less severely affected

Who& #39;s more severe:

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙋‍♀️" title="Happy woman raising one hand" aria-label="Emoji: Happy woman raising one hand">Lastly, (feel free to add yours to this thread pls) are you actually seeing an impact from BMI>40 as it is a risk factor referred to in reading avail resources.