The shadow of the pandemic is elongated.To the sequelae generated in mental health, a long irrigation of chronic diseases that may arise as a result of an infection can be added.
COVID-19 increases the risk of subsequent heart effects, neurological symptoms or pulmonary disorders, among others.Now also the evidence that points to the possibility that the virus favors the appearance of diabetes.
It is known that this disease increases the risk of poor health, including suffering a serious case by COVID-19.Experts are now detecting just the reverse situation: Covid-19 patients are developing diabetes, especially minors.
Last September, a study revealed that of more than 285,000 children with Covid, 0.04 % were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes during the following 6 months.That represents an increase of 72% compared to the rate detected in a group of comparison of children without a history of infection.
Experts point out in work that findings do not prove that COVID is responsible, but the results add to a body of increasing evidence that link Sars-Cov-2 and diabetes.
At the beginning of the year, an investigation of the University of California detected an increase in the incidence of type 1 diabetes in children between March 2020 and March 2021 than one would expect from previous years.
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An analysis of data from the centers for the control and prevention of diseases of the United States (CDC), discovered a higher risk? Up to 166% higher depending on the set of valued features?of diagnosis of type 1 diabetes in patients under 18, 30 days after an infection by COVID-19.
In Germany or United Kingdom, studies have reached similar conclusions.Also in our country the specialists have perceived an increase in diagnosis of diabetes type 1 in children under 15 for 2020.
New diagnosis of type 2 diabetes have also been notified in people who have had the coronavirus.A study by the Children's Hospital of Colorado (USA) detected a 77% increase in cases among young people (from 8 to 21 years old) during the first year of the pandemic.
how could the Covid generate the disease
There are many reasons that could explain the figures, he explains in Quartz Sharon Saydah, the main scientist of the CDC who worked in the report on diabetes.
"It could be that the Covid triggered an autoimmune response that led to diabetes; perhaps children with a predisposition to diabetes had more serious cases of covid, and they were diagnosed with diabetes only after; or parents could be more attentive toChildren who had Covid and be faster to recognize the signs of diabetes. "
Type 1 diabetes is much less common than type 2 diabetes, normally linked to adulthood and, often, associated with factors such as obesity.
On the contrary, type 1 is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks by mistakeenergy.I don't know knowing what the condition could generate.Although it is believed that viruses could be a potential trigger.
An investigation published in August 2021 in Cell Metabolism revealed that the SARS-COV-2 attenuates the levels and secretion of insulin in the pancreas and induces cell apoptosis?
alarm signs after an infection by COVID-19
For those parents whoThey can be worried, specialists recommend being attentive to their children's symptoms, especially in the weeks and months after a Covid infection.
"The parents of the children who have had Covid must know the different signs and symptoms of diabetes, to ensure that they receive the attention they need," says Saydah.
The increase in thirst, the desire to urinate, weight loss and fatigue can be signs of diabetes, and an early diagnosis helps avoid more serious risks.
