In July, U.S. health officials found that nearly 40% of people who have died with COVID-19 had diabetes. “COVID could be causing diabetes from scratch," said Dr. Francesco Rubino, a diabetes researcher and chair of metabolic and bariatric surgery at King’s College London. In addition to the global registry, the U.S. National Institutes of Health is financing research into how the coronavirus may cause high blood sugars and diabetes. Type 1 diabetes cases have previously been associated with other viral infections, including influenza and previous coronaviruses. But the lack of testing in many of these cases, they say, may complicate efforts to detect whether and how the coronavirus might be causing diabetes.

Source: Mint October 19, 2020 11:48 UTC