One of the consequences of the Covid pandemic has been an increase in the number of cases of people with diabetes, both type 1 and type 2, without it being very clear what the reasons for this relationship have been. Now, a study published in ‘JAMA Network‘ assures that pediatric patients aged 10 to 19 years diagnosed with Covid-19 have a higher risk of type 2 diabetes within six months compared to those diagnosed with other respiratory infections.
The team of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (USA) analyzed 613,602 pediatric patients aged 10 to 19 years divided into two groups: 306,801 diagnosed with Covid-19 and 306,801 patients diagnosed with other respiratory infections.
The research compared the incidence of new diagnoses of type 2 diabetes one month, three months and six months after the initial respiratory infection.
The results showed that the risk ratios (RR) of developing type 2 diabetes after Covid-19 were significantly higher than in the case of those with other types of respiratory infections.
The study concludes that SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with a higher incidence of type 2 diabetes diagnoses in children than in those with other respiratory infections.
However, the authors acknowledge that while Covid-19 may seem like an unintuitive cause of type 2 diabetes, it is currently not understood what triggers the disease. It is often related to being overweight, lack of activity, eating processed foods, or a family history of type 2 diabetes, indicating both an environmental and possibly genetic basis.
Furthermore, they add, since it is a retrospective analysis, it only demonstrates past correlations between Covid-19 and the study cohort and cannot identify causality.
Therefore, they conclude, More research will be needed to determine if Covid-19 is directly interfering with any of the related systems. with glucose detection and insulin regulation by the brain, insulin production in the pancreas or the binding capacity of cells.
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