COVID-19 Associated With Increase in New Diagnoses of Type 1 Diabetes in Youth, by as Much as 72% - Neuroscience News

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Summary: Children who contracted COVID-19 are at increased risk of being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.

Source: Case Western Reserve.

In a study published today in the journal JAMA Network Open, researchers at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine report that children and adolescents who contracted COVID-19 were more prone to developing T1D in the six months following their COVID diagnosis.

Garvin Research Professor at the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, a study corresponding author.

“Families with high risk of type 1 diabetes in their children should be especially alert for symptoms of diabetes following COVID, and pediatricians should be alert for an influx of new cases of type 1 diabetes, especially since the Omicron variant of COVID spreads so rapidly among children,” Davis said.

“We are also investigating possible changes in development of type 2 diabetes in children following SARS-CoV2 infection,” Xu said

The Case Western Reserve research team also included David Kaelber, professor of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, and medical students Ellen Kendall and Veronica Olaker

Source: Case Western Reserve

Contact: Press Office – Case Western Reserve