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COVID-19 a Risk Factor for New Pediatric Diabetes
Looking at two different data sources, the risk of being newly diagnosed with diabetes -- including type 1, type 2, and other types of diabetes -- was significantly higher for those with COVID-19 compared with those who never tested positive for the virus, reported Sharon Saydah, PhD, of the CDC COVID-19 Emergency Response Team, and colleagues in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
"New diabetes diagnoses were 166% (IQVIA) and 31% (HealthVerity) more likely to occur among patients with COVID-19 than among those without COVID-19 during the pandemic
This didn't come as a surprise, since a slew of other studies have demonstrated the association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and diabetes in adults.
The IQVIA database included 80,893 patients who tested positive for COVID-19 from March 1, 2020, through Feb. 26, 2021. About half of patients were female, with an average age of 12, and only 0.7% were hospitalized for COVID-19. The HealthVerity database included nearly 440,000 patients diagnosed with COVID-19, who tested positive from March 1, 2020 through June 28, 2021. Average age was 13, half were female, and about 0.9% were hospitalized.
[The effect appears to be specific to COVID. They saw no increase with other respiratory infections in the prepandemic data.]
Looking at two different data sources, the risk of being newly diagnosed with diabetes -- including type 1, type 2, and other types of diabetes -- was significantly higher for those with COVID-19 compared with those who never tested positive for the virus, reported Sharon Saydah, PhD, of the CDC COVID-19 Emergency Response Team, and colleagues in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
"New diabetes diagnoses were 166% (IQVIA) and 31% (HealthVerity) more likely to occur among patients with COVID-19 than among those without COVID-19 during the pandemic
This didn't come as a surprise, since a slew of other studies have demonstrated the association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and diabetes in adults.
The IQVIA database included 80,893 patients who tested positive for COVID-19 from March 1, 2020, through Feb. 26, 2021. About half of patients were female, with an average age of 12, and only 0.7% were hospitalized for COVID-19. The HealthVerity database included nearly 440,000 patients diagnosed with COVID-19, who tested positive from March 1, 2020 through June 28, 2021. Average age was 13, half were female, and about 0.9% were hospitalized.
[The effect appears to be specific to COVID. They saw no increase with other respiratory infections in the prepandemic data.]
