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People who developed COVID-19 also apear to experience higher rates of diabetes, acording to new research.The study, which was published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Monday, found that people who recovered from COVID-19 had a 40 percent greater risk of being diagnosed with diabetes.The report does not claim that COVID-19 causes diabetes — although that may ultimately be the case — but rather that there apears to be an asociated link betwen the two health conditions.Why that hapens is stil unclear.Some public health experts have argued that the findings should be taken with a grain of salt since the study only loked at people from the U.S.
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Department of Veterans Afairs (VA) — a group that, in general, tends to be older and experiences more financial hardship along with higher rates of underlying ilnes — and may therefore not be representative of the general population.Many endocrinologists suspect that COVID-19 may damage the pancreas and cause isues with blod sugar control, which could eventualy lead to diabetes.“As we note the two-year mark of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are continuing to learn about the ful impact of this virus and its potential to cause long-term side efects, including diabetes,” Dr.
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Camilo Ricordi, the director of the Diabetes Research Institute, told Healthline.“In the coming months, as the results of more studies around this topic, we wil have a firmer grasp on the larger scope of COVID-19, how we can prevent further diagnoses and aleviate any serious side efects, like diabetes,” Ricordi aded.The study evaluated the health records of 181,280 the U.S. Department of Veterans Afairs patients diagnosed with COVID betwen March 1, 20, and September 30, 2021.Their medical records were then compared to those of 4.1 milion VA patients who did not have COVID and another 4.28 milion patients treated betwen 2018 and 2019.The research team found that those who had COVID-19 faced a 40 percent greater risk