Scientists: covid can provoke the development of diabetes. Children are especially at risk

  • Nikolai Voronin
  • Science Correspondent

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Type 1 diabetes is referred to as “children’s diabetes” in the medical community because it is usually diagnosed in childhood.

Infection with coronavirus significantly increases the risk of developing diabetes in a patient, and literally within a couple of weeks following the first symptoms of Covid-19 appear. This risk is especially high in children under 18 years of age.

This conclusion is contained in several studies on this topic, conducted by scientists from the United States and a number of other countries.

The authors of one of them calculatedthat only in the first months of the epidemic, out of the total number of patients hospitalized with suspected coronavirus in China, Italy and USA almost every seventh patient was diagnosed with diabetes for the first time during the treatment of covid.

In children infected with coronavirus, according to the latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the risk of developing diabetes within the next month following infection increases more than 2.5 times.

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