Study found that patients who have been infected with the new crown have a 28% increased risk of diabetes than patients with acute upper respiratory tract infection;
Infection with the new coronavirus After COVID-19, in addition to the possibility of long-term pneumonia, months of fatigue, brain fog, and body aches, there is also the possibility of type 2 diabetes!
According to foreign media “Medical News Today” (Medical News Today) reported that a study found that patients infected with the new crown than patients with acute upper respiratory tract infection, the risk of diabetes increased by 28%.
The study compared patients with COVID-19 with acute upper respiratory tract infection who had their initial visit from March 2020 to January 2021 and found that among patients with COVID-19, 15.8 per 1,000 people received the first Type 2 diabetes; for every 1,000 patients with acute upper respiratory tract infection, 12.3 people have type 2 diabetes.
The first author of this study, Professor Wolfgang Rathmann of the University of Düsseldorf in Germany, said that recovery from COVID-19 may lead to diabetes due to an improved immune system, resulting in pancreatic β-cell insufficiency and insulin resistance;
Or the patient was at risk for diabetes, such as obesity or prediabetes, which occurred earlier due to COVID-19.
Swapnil Khare, an assistant professor at Indiana University, said that based on previous research, a link between viral infection and diabetes is known, and they speculate that viral infection is a second trigger in people who are already predisposed to developing diabetes.
In addition to some COVID-19 inflammatory markers that can cause pancreatic insufficiency, some COVID-19 medications can also increase the risk of diabetes.
Further research is needed to understand whether type 2 diabetes acquired after infection is temporarily reversible, or a chronic disease.