TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – A large study of nearly 200,000 people showed that affected people Covid-19 had a greater risk of developing diabetes one year later, even after mild SARS-CoV-2 infection, compared to those who had never had the disease.
Study published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology earlier this month, is one of a growing number of studies showing that Covid-19 can increase a person’s risk of diabetes, several months after infection.
“When the whole pandemic As this recedes, we will be left with the legacy of this pandemic – a legacy of chronic disease for which the health care system is unprepared,” said study co-author Ziyad Al-Aly, lead researcher for the St. Louis Healthcare System’s Veterans Affairs (VA) in Missouri. Nature, March 31, 2022.
Al-Aly and Yan Xie, an epidemiologist also at the VA St Louis Healthcare System, looked at the medical records of more than 180,000 people who survived more than a month after contracting Covid-19.
They compared this with records from the two groups, each of about four million people without SARS-CoV-2 infection who had used the VA healthcare system, either before or during the pandemic. The pair had previously used similar methods to show that Covid-19 increased the risk of kidney disease, heart failure and stroke.
A recent analysis found that people who had Covid-19 were about 40 percent more likely to develop diabetes up to a year later than veterans in the control group. That means that for every 1,000 people studied in each group, roughly 13 more people in the Covid-19 group were diagnosed with diabetes. Almost all cases detected are type 2 diabetes, where the body becomes resistant or does not produce enough insulin.
The chances of developing diabetes increase as the severity of COVID-19 increases. People who were hospitalized or admitted to intensive care had three times the risk compared to people who didn’t have Covid-19.
Even people who have mild infections and have no previous diabetes risk factors have an increased chance of developing the chronic condition, Al-Aly said. Of people with Covid-19 who avoided hospitalization, an additional 8 people out of every 1,000 studied had developed diabetes a year later compared to people who were not infected.
People with a high body mass index, a measure of obesity – and substantial risk factors for type 2 diabetes – more than doubled the risk of developing diabetes after SARS-CoV-2 infection.
NATURE
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