Covid-19 leads to more diabetes cases

First the virus, then the blood sugar disease: Covid-19 promotes diabetes

After a corona infection, the risk of type 2 diabetes increases. Not only the virus might be to blame for the current increase in cases, but the connection cannot be dismissed out of hand.

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First the virus, then the blood sugar disease: According to one current German study the risk of type 2 diabetes increases following a Covid-19 infection. One of the study authors, Wolfgang Rathmann, suspects that more sugar remains in the blood because of Covid-19. Rathmann is deputy director of the Institute for Biometry and Epidemiology at the Diabetes Center in Düsseldorf.