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Eric Topol Dec 5, 2022

Covid is associated with a >60% increased risk of newly diagnosed diabetes
A systematic analysis replicated by 2 independent groups
https://nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24185-7…
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-022-02656-y…

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AskPippa🇨🇦

@erictopol What portion of those were patients whose diabetes was undiagnosed before they got COVID? This other study found that over 34% of people hospitalized for COVID19 who had diabetes heard about the diagnosis for the first time (that's 8.7% of all the hospitalized patients who were newly diagnosed with diabetes).
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35704430/

HbA1c measurement may save COVID-19 inpatients from overlooked diabetes - PubMed

Diabetes is a predictor of COVID-19 aggravation. Furthermore, in COVID-19 patients with diabetes, high HbA1c levels are a risk factor for severe COVID-19. A total of 8.7% of COVID-19 inpatients were diagnosed with diabetes after HbA1c was measured on admission. Therefore, it is important to measure …

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Diane Hallinen Dec 5, 2022

@AskPippa @erictopol I guess to answer your question we can compare the incidence of newly diagnosed DM in influenza patients in 2018-2019 to newly dx DM pts with Covid in 2020-2021. The variant might matter. I’ve seen some pretty fast progression of DM in young people post Covid. Struck me as weird.