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COVID is still a mystery mostly because of the way it affects various body organs. A respiratory illness in nature, COVID affects the body way differently than other respiratory issues.
It affects the heart, lungs, kidneys and even brain. A recent research study has found a strong link between COVID and diabetes.
“After COVID-19, patients of all ages and genders had an elevated incidence and relative risk for a new diagnosis of diabetes. Particular attention should be paid during the first 3 months of follow-up after COVID-19 for new-onset diabetes,” the study, published in BMC Medicine, found. The researchers studied the risk of onset of diabetes in 10 populations who had COVID.
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They found that there was a 1.48 times increased risk of developing type 1 diabetes and a 1.7 times higher risk of type 2 diabetes compared to those who were not infected with COVID. Apart from this, the researchers have also predicted a higher risk of diabetes in other cases. Their analysis also found that there is a risk of 1.2 times of developing diabetes after COVID compared to patients with other upper respiratory tract infections and a 1.82 higher risk of developing diabetes after COVID compared to the general population. The researchers have stressed on the need to test the patient’s glucose metabolism in the post-acute phase of COVID. Several other studies have found that the coronavirus acts on the mRNA of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) in the endocrine and exocrine glands of the pancreas.
Also, the coronavirus can induce a cytokine storm that “may play a role in promoting insulin resistance and β-cell hyperstimulation, ultimately leading to altered cellular function and the death of β-cells,” the researchers explain.
A study published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology in March 2022, said that even mild COVID infections can amplify a person’s chance of developing diabetes, especially for those already susceptible to the disease.
The researchers studied the medical records of more than 180,000 people who had survived for longer than a month after catching COVID. They found that those who had had COVID were about 40 percent more likely to develop diabetes up to a year. “That meant that for every 1,000 people studied in each group, roughly 13 more individuals in the COVID-19 group were diagnosed with diabetes. Almost all cases detected were type 2 diabetes, in which the body becomes resistant to or doesn’t produce enough insulin,” the research study found.