Doctors studying whether Covid-19 is causing diabetes worldwide

NEW YORK - Mr Mario Buelna, a healthy 28-year-old father, caught a fever and started having trouble breathing in June. He soon tested positive for Covid-19. Weeks later, after what had seemed like a recovery, he felt weak and started vomiting. At 3am on Aug 1, he passed out on the floor of his home in Mesa, Arizona.

Dr Rubino is leading an international team that is collecting patient cases globally to unravel one of the biggest mysteries of the pandemic. Initially, he said, more than 300 doctors have applied to share cases for review, a number he expects to grow as infections flare up again. "We have more questions than answers right now," said Dr Robert Eckel, president of medicine and science at the American Diabetes Association."We could be dealing with an entirely new form of diabetes."

But this tends to happen in people predisposed to the disease. Only some of them eventually develop diabetes, and scientists still don't fully understand why. On July 9, as his symptoms persisted, Mr Simis took his son to an urgent care centre near their home in Gardnerville, Nevada. The medical staff detected dangerously high blood sugar levels and ketones in his urine, both indicators that Atticus was in diabetic ketoacidosis, or DKA.

Children in intensive care The initial reports of Covid-related diabetes include more children with cases like that of Atticus. Dr Lily Chao, director of the type 2 diabetes clinic there, said the hospital is still investigating whether this increase is driven by exposure to Covid-19.

Staying home and getting food delivered is causing diabetes. But the delivery guys are cycling more than ever so that balances out.

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