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Kiel. Diabetes after a corona infection – German researchers report on such a case in the specialist journal “Nature Metabolism”. “A 19-year-old patient came to the clinic with newly developed severe diabetes with insulin deficiency. It turned out that he had apparently gone through an asymptomic infection with Sars-CoV-2 a few weeks earlier, ”explained Matthias Laudes from the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU). Researchers from Munich and Dresden were also involved in the work.
The proven type 1 diabetes is usually triggered by an autoimmune reaction in which the immune system mistakenly considers the beta cells in the pancreas to be foreign and attacks them. “But this patient did not have this autoimmune reaction,” said Laudes. “We assume that the Sars-CoV-2 virus itself attacked the beta cells here.” The then disturbed insulin production then led to diabetes.
The young man received intensive care for three days. After a total of ten days, he was able to leave the hospital.
