Covid-19: Type 1 diabetes and Covid-19 link being investigated

[Northerner]

A study is under way in the Southern Health Trust area to investigate possible links between Type 1 diabetes and Covid-19.

A consultant paediatrician said there has been an increase in the number of young people being diagnosed since the beginning of the pandemic.

Last year, the trust said there were 41 new cases, its highest yearly total on record.

Dr Sarinda Millar specialises in Type 1 diabetes in children and young people.

"We are having more diagnoses, specially since the start of 2021 but more last year, as well," she said.

"But in January we had nine new cases of Type 1 diabetes in children and young people in one week alone in our trust area," she said.

Covid-19: Type 1 diabetes and Covid-19 link being investigated

The Southern Trust recorded its highest annual total of Type 1 diabetes cases, prompting new research.

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[mikeyB]

I've said this before on this topic, but it well known that viral infections can trigger the emergence of T1, so this is far from a surprise, and far from a particular feature of Covid-19.

 

[atoll]

I've said this before on this topic, but it well known that viral infections can trigger the emergence of T1, so this is far from a surprise, and far from a particular feature of Covid-19.

i wonder if they weighed up the risk when sending kids back to school or are we in for an epidemic of new T1's,seems like there have been quite a few threads on the forum from parents with newly diagnosed kids in the last year,many after reporting possible covid infections in other family members prior to diagnosis.

 

[mikeyB]

That doesn't really affect my point, because nobody has intensively studied a virus in this way. Have there been blips in measles, chicken pox and flu epidemics in the past? Some retro research needed. There is nothing, absolutely nothing different or special about this coronavirus. It just kills more folk than flu. That's a difference in degree, not character.