Hmmm. If you’re diabetic you know that’s a big additional risk factor for death in this uhhhh current environment. Finally someone tells us why — hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) causes massive oxidative stress which in turns depletes your body of reduced glutathione, the lack of which causes a big increase in your D-DIMER level. High D-dimer levels lead to acute strokes, lung clots (pulmonary emboli), and heart attacks — basically death by clotting. We’ve seen this in New York cases, Boston, all over. Higher serum glutathione can and should equal lower or normal D-dimer levels. Enough said.