Dr. Sarah Lawrence, a pediatric endocrinologist at CHEO and an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Ottawa, says COVID-19 doesn't cause diabetes, but, for children who are predisposed, a virus can trigger an autoimmune process that damages the pancreas.Researchers and physicians are urging parents to be aware of the symptoms of diabetes in children who have been infected with COVID-19.
“A virus — it could be just a cold — puts stress on the body. We see this all the time,” she said. “They have pre-diabetes for a period of months or years, then they tip out.” Lawrence and her colleagues across Canada have formed a working group to look at ways to enlist parents and the general public in increasing awareness of the symptoms in children.
The study reviewed claims of 80,893 young patients at IQVIA and 439,439 at HealthVerity. New diabetes diagnoses were 166 per cent more likely to occur at IQVIA and 31 per cent more likely to occur at HealthVerity among those who had been infected with COVID-19 than the uninfected. The pandemic may also have indirectly increased diabetes risk through increases in body mass index, which is a risk factor for both serious COVID-19 illness and diabetes.
Diabetes Canada estimates that about 28,000 young people between the ages of 1 and 19 are living with type 1 diabetes and about 2,000 have type 2. Diabetes prevalence has increased. A decade ago, there were about 26,000 people between 1 and 19 living with type 1 and type 2, Diabetes Canada says.
healthing_ca Interesting, after billions getting covid, they do not have enough data on getting reinfected but they can track children and diabetes…….
healthing_ca Any garden variety cold virus can trigger diabetes in predisposed children. The inflammation caused by COVID-19 vaccines can trigger autoimmune diseases (diabetes, thyroid disease, etc.) in predisposed individuals. This is unnecessary fear mongering.
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