Type One Diabetes?

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Even people with very mild cases of covid had quite significant increases in their chances of developing diabetes up to a year later. The case with one diabedes is more complicated and yet to be resolved. There have been some laboratory studies trying to look at whether the virus, saskovto destroys intulen producing cells in the pancreas.

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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