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Scientists find COVID-19 infection may lead to increased risk of type 2 diabetes

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Two separate studies have found that having had a COVID-19 infection may lead to increased risk of type 2 diabetes, and that those who had more severe cases of COVID-19 are far more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes afterward.

study out of Germany that examined patients who had previously had COVID-19, and found they were 28 percent more likely to develop diabetes afterward. A United States study similarly reported an increased risk for diabetes post-COVID, finding patients who had the virus were 40 percent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes a year after infection.

The US study also found that people who had been treated in the ICU for their severe COVID-19 infections are 276 percent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes a year after having COVID.

The study’s lead researcher, Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, says the diabetes risk is not isolated to those who have been hospitalized for COVID-19. “This is not diabetes for a month or two after recovery. This is for a year out, and it’s happening certainly in people who are not hospitalized,” he said.

The CDC published a report in January that showed children who had contracted COVID-19 were 2 ½ times more likely than those who had not to develop diabetes a month after infection. 

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Terry A. Hurlbut has been a student of politics, philosophy, and science for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Yale College and has served as a physician-level laboratory administrator in a 250-bed community hospital. He also is a serious student of the Bible, is conversant in its two primary original languages, and has followed the creation-science movement closely since 1993.

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