Type 2 Diabetes Diagnoses Emerge in Teens Months After COVID
- Ben Dubin
- Nov 17, 2024
- 1 min read
First, having T2DM made COVID-19 symptom worse, now getting COVID-19 may be the cause of a teenager contracting T2DM!
Children and teens had an increased risk of being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes after COVID-19 infection, a retrospective cohort study of over 600,000 youth suggested.
Adolescents 10 to 19 years old had a 55% higher risk for a new diagnosis of type 2 diabetes 1 month after a COVID diagnosis compared with peers diagnosed with a non-COVID respiratory bug (risk ratio [RR] 1.55, 95% CI 1.28-1.89), reported Pauline Terebuh, MD, MPH, of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and colleagues.
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