There are some reports from doctors that suggest Covid, among many side effects negative, also have that of trigger diabetes in people who never had it.
The testimonials
The portal reports some experiences and “rumors” of doctors Doctor33which speaks of an increase in reports from surprised and frightened patients: “My team usually manages between 16 and 18 people with diabetes per day, but our number has increased to 30 per day,” says Mihail Zilbermint, endocrinologist and associate professor at John Hopkins School of Medicine in Maryland. The onset of the disease would occur in people recovered from severe Covid, who suddenly found themselves diabetic with the need for daily glycemic monitoring and immediate initiation of therapy with metformin. “We clearly see people without prior diabetes developing this condition,” says Remi Rabasa-Lhoret, del Montreal Clinical Research Institute, as reported by the site. “It is highly probable that Covid-19 is triggering the disease.”
Confirmations from studies
No one knows the reason for this sudden development of diabetes post Covid-19, but there are studies that confirm this by going so far as to hypothesize up to the 14% share of former (serious) coronavirus patients who have experienced this serious after-effects. An article on the New England Journal of Medicine described a “two-way relationship”: people with diabetes are at greater risk of experiencing serious outcomes if they contract Covid-19 and now the virus could put people at greater risk of developing diabetes. In some cases the mechanism also occurs in after-effects of flu.
The first hypotheses
One of the first supposed explanations is that it could be a collateral effect of a steroid used to treat Covid-19, the dexamethasone, one of the few therapies truly considered effective in the acute phase of Covid disease: the virus may be able to change the way cells metabolize glucose; or Covid-19 could enter the beta cells directly and damage them. Another hypothesis is that perhaps the infection prompts pre-diabetes to manifest itself in people who would take years to discover that they are at risk, or that it may be a new condition that has aspects of both type 1 and type 1 diabetes. type 2.
Acute onset of diabetes was also reported more frequently among SARS patients ten years ago and now the question is whether it is a permanent or temporary condition. Only time will tell: al King’s College in London have created a database where all researchers and clinicians can submit their patient information to a global registry of this post-Covid aspect.
April 21, 2021 (change April 21, 2021 | 14:15)
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