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- Doctors are studying an unexpected coronavirus complication that can appear a few weeks or even months after the initial COVID-19 infection.
- Some patients develop diabetes, experiencing life-threatening symptoms that require immediate medical attention.
- Doctors observed surprising onset of diabetes following covid infections in older patients who did not have any underlying risk factors, as well as in children who survived a novel coronavirus infection.
- While both type 1 and type 2 diabetes can be managed with treatment, diabetes can’t be cured. Some patients will need expensive insulin therapy for the rest of their lives.
More and more reports indicate that beating the novel coronavirus illness is a lot easier said than done. Statistically speaking, the COVID-19 death rate hovers around 3% worldwide, with some degree of variance between countries. That means most people will survive the infection — but their fight with coronavirus symptoms won’t always be over even after beating the disease. Many patients experience long-term symptoms that might require medical attention. Some even go on to develop multisystem inflammatory syndromes. But now doctors think the pathogen can create the sort of complication that might never go away.
Diabetes is one of the most serious risk factors for COVID-19 complications and death, and it turns out that there may be another puzzling link between the two conditions. The novel coronavirus may be inducing diabetes in some patients “from scratch,” and that’s the sort of chronic disease that will need continuous treatment. Modern medicine can improve the management of both types of diabetes, but there’s no cure for diabetes right now. And even if living with diabetes is a lot easier than it was in the past, access to care isn’t guaranteed and insulin therapy can be very expensive.
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A dangerous new coronavirus complication was discovered – and it never goes away if you get it originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 08:56:11 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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