Is There a Causal Mechanism to Diabetes?

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There's been more than 500 million cases globally of cover 19. So all we need is like a modest increase in diabedes risk, and you could see quite a drastic number of people with the disease world wide. Even just a small increase in the number globily of people developing this disease, tthat's pretty massive. And ad on top of that, other chronic diseases like kidney disease, heart failure and stroke that you just mentioned. I mean, li the repercussions of this virus are going to be felt for years, if not decades.

The true disability cost of the COVID-19 pandemic is still unknown, but more and more studies are adding to the list of potential fallout from even mild COVID 19 infection. In this episode of Coronapod we discuss a massive association study which links COVID-19 cases with an increase in the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. We delve into the numbers to ask how big the risk might be? Whether any casual relationship can be drawn from this association? And what might be in store from future research into COVID and chronic disease?

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