Young people with presymptomatic symptoms of type 1 diabetes were more at risk of developing the condition during the COVID-19 pandemic, new research has underscored.
A team of researchers from Munich examined the health data of 358 young people before the pandemic and 396 afterwards.
All of the participants had presymptomatic symptoms of type 1 diabetes.
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More than 50 of the participants went on to develop type 1 diabetes before the pandemic, the study has reported.
Meanwhile, 113 of the participants developed the condition during the pandemic, the research has revealed.
A total of 236 of the participants contracted COVID-19 during the pandemic, according to the results.
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The authors said: “During the pandemic period, the incidence rates of type 1 diabetes were 8.6 while participants had tested negative for COVID-19 and 14 after COVID-19 infection.
“The findings are consistent with previously reported acceleration of progression in children with presymptomatic type 1 diabetes by viral infection.”
Read the study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
