COVID-19 can cause diabetes and doctors are starting to understand why

[Chris Smith]

• Diabetes is a significant risk factor for COVID-19, but doctors warn coronavirus survivors can also develop diabetes after clearing a covid infection.
• Some researchers think the novel coronavirus can determine the onset of a diabetes variation that might not fall into the current Type 1 or Type 2 categories. Instead, it might be a combination of the two.
• It’s unclear whether diabetes after COVID-19 is transitory or permanent, but a study did show that the virus can infect pancreatic cells involved in insulin production.

Diabetes is one of the major risk factors for COVID-19 patients, but from the early days of the pandemic, doctors observed that some of the people who survive the infection actually end up developing diabetes as well. This is a medical condition that affects millions of people worldwide, and it’s currently incurable.

Recent studies have shown that COVID-19 survivors developed diabetes in the weeks and months that followed their initial bout with the illness. Since then, additional studies have been published, as doctors are starting to understand what causes the onset of diabetes in COVID-19 survivors. It appears that the virus can infect cells of the pancreas, and this can lead to a case of diabetes that might never go away. The doctors do not have all the answers, as there are plenty of ongoing studies looking into diabetes secondary to the SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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