Study Finds COVID Infection Linked To Heighten Diabetes Risk

[Northerner]

A new study examining patient medical records has found that people who recovered from COVID-19 had a heightened risk of being diagnosed with diabetes within a year of infection compared with someone who had not been infected.

The study, published Monday in the journal Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, found that roughly 2 in 100 people who tested positive for the virus were later diagnosed with diabetes. This was no matter the severity of COVID-19 infection ― including those who were asymptomatic ― or if the patient had any prior risk factors for developing diabetes, the study’s co-author, Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, told HuffPost.

“It’s happening in some cases where people had no risk factors at all. Meaning they did not have obesity, they did not have high cholesterol, did not have any of the manifestations that would be considered risk factors for diabetes,” said Al-Aly, who serves as the chief of research and development at the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System and who is a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis.

Study Finds COVID Infection Linked To Heighten Diabetes Risk

The study of more than 8 million VA medical records found that roughly 2 out of every 100 people, some without prior risks, were later diagnosed with diabetes.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

 

[mikeyB]

Incorrect definition of T2 diabetes in the report.

And the rate of diagnosis of 2 per 100 isn’t that far removed from the natural rate of occurrence, so could be a statistical blip. This is taking the “everything that happens after Covid must be caused by Covid” to stretch even further beyond the realms of scaremongering.

 

[Eddy Edson]

From the SI. COVID led to highly statistically significant diabetes DX and diabetes med prescriptions in excess of the expected levels without COVID, with very tight confidence intervals.

Assuming the data construction and analysis were performed well, indicates a ~40% increased risk of diabetes DX/diabetes med RX with COVID.

 

[MikeyBikey]

This piece of research into the development of Type I diabetes in children who have had Covid published early on in the pandemic is rather more convincing. It also ties in with the long held view that Type I usually follows an infection.

 

[trophywench]

This piece of research into the development of Type I diabetes in children who have had Covid published early on in the pandemic is rather more convincing. It also ties in with the long held view that Type I usually follows an infection.

The important thing is not just any old infection - it has to be a VIRAL one. Bacterial ones, pfft. 🙂