Heightened risk of Diabetes 2 after Covid

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Heightened risk of Diabetes 2 after Covid

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Latest study is from BC. It joins 12 other studies.

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/new-di ... dium=email

Back in 2020, when the first signals that diabetes (particularly Type 2) was showing up more than a month out from Covid, the hope was that it was spurious. But then study after study have been confirming this sequelae. Today a new study from the province of British Columbia in Canada, a comprehensive population assessment, is the 12th report of a heightened risk of Type 2 diabetes after Covid. This cohort was younger than most (mean age 32 years) and the increased risk of 17% was less than most of the previous publications. I’ve summarized the key data for Type 2 diabetes risk in the Table below. As you can see, the cohorts varied considerably with respect to age and sex. Consistently, the risk has been seen to be higher in men, in people of advanced age, and among those obese, and those with severe Covid. The increased risk compared with controls ranges widely from 17% to 235% with only 1 of these studies not showing a significant increase in a subgroup (among women in a Veterans Affairs report). The CDC published a MMWR on a cohort less than age 18 which did not partition Type 1 and 2 diabetes, but overall showed a 31% increased risk.

Indeed, a previous systematic analysis reported an increased risk for either Type 1 or 2 diabetes after Covid in 12 of 14 studies, ranging from 11% to 276%. That was prior to some of the newer publications included in the Table below.
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