We're still getting our head around the sequelae of COVID-19.

in covid •  2 years ago 

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There's a new paper in JAMA that reports on a study (N = 630,000) in British Columbia to compare the rates of the onset of diabetes between patients that have been infected with COVID-19 and those that haven't.

For women, the results didn't achieve significance. For men, it looks like contracting COVID-19 increases the risk of developing diabetes by about 22%. (The risk is potentially reduced by being vaccinated)

The current estimate is that COVID-19 will raise the overall incidence of diabetes in the populace by about 3%.

Link to the full paper in JAMA : https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2803938

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