A study by scientists at the Smidt Heart Institute in the United States confirmed what doctors suspected: infection with the coronavirus increases the risk of patients developing type 2 diabetes.
Researchers evaluated the medical records of 23,709 adults with an average age of 47 years. All had been diagnosed with Covid-19 at least once and treated at the Los Angeles Cedars-Sinai Health System from 2020 to 2022.
Published this Tuesday (14/2), in the journal JAMA Network Open, the results show that the risk of having type 2 diabetes is 58% higher for those who had Covid. Vaccination possibly exerts a protective effect, as 74% of diabetes diagnoses occurred in unvaccinated patients.
“While further studies are needed to validate this hypothesis, we remain steadfast in our belief that vaccination remains an important tool in protecting once morest COVID-19 and the as-yet-uncertain risks people may experience during the post-infection period,” said said cardiologist Alan Kwan, one of the authors of the research.
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The authors also believe that Covid-19 may have an accelerating effect on diseases, anticipating diagnoses that might be avoided. “Our results confirm that the risk of developing type 2 diabetes following Covid-19 was not just an early observation, but actually a real risk that unfortunately persisted through the Omicron wave,” said Kwan.
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