Massachusetts doctor discusses link between COVID-19 and developing diabetes
Updated: 6:16 PM EDT Mar 28, 2022
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. BEN: WE’VE KNOWN FOR A LONG TIME THAT DIABETICS ARE MUCH MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER FROM SEVERE CASES OF COVID. WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THIS OTHER POSSIBLE CONNECTION? >> WE’VE SEEN AN INCREE ASNUMBER OF STUDIES COMING OUT THE LAST COUPLEF O MONTHS SHOWING ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PEOPLE THAT HAD COVID AND DEVELOPED DIABETES. THIS IS BOTH TYPE 1 AND TEUP 2 DIABETES. MOSTLY TYPE 2 DIABETES IN ADULTS. A STUDY THAT SHOWS A PRETTY STNGRO CORRELATION ABOUT 40% INCREASE RISK OF DIABETES IN THE YEAR FOLLOWING COVID-19 DIAGNOSIS FOR PEOPLE THAT VEHA RECOVERED. THAT’S NEW INFORMATION. CLINICALLY, WE’VE SEEN CASES PEOPLE DEVELOPING NEW DIAGNOSIS OF DIABESTE IN THAT SETTING. THISS I HELPFUL CLINICAL INFORMATION. ERIKA: HOW CONCERN SHOULD PEOEPL BE? NYMA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO COVID AND DELTA AND OMICRON SURGE. WHAT DO THEY NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THEIR DIABETES RISK? >> WITH ALL THE STUDIES, THEY REALLY STOP LOOKING AT PATIENTS IN EARLY 2021 FOR FOR THE MOST PART. THOSE ARE COVID DIAGNOSIS FROM 2020 WITH A YEAR OF FOLLOW-UP. THEN SUBSEQUENT TIME TO ANALYZE THE DATA. WE DON’T KNOW WHAT VACCINATION HAS NEDO TO THIS CORRELATION. IF ANYTHING. WE’RE SEEING FROM THE STUDIES THAT SICKER PATIENTS WERE MORE LIKELY TO DEVELOP DIABETES IN GENERAL. THE JURY SLLTI OUT WHAT OMICRON WILL HOLD. WILL IT BE 40% OR 30% INCREASE IN VACCINES. BEN: KIDS HAVE A LOWER RISFOK R SEVERE COVID SYMPTOMS. WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THEIR RISK FOR LONG-TERM COMPLICATIONS, CH ASSU DIABETES? >> IN GENERAL KIDS HAVE A LESS OF RISK OF LONG CIDOV SYMPTOMS. THAT’S ALSO TRUE FOR DIABETES. THERE IS A ASSOCIATION THATHE T CDC DESCRIBED AND SEVERAL STUDIES SHOWN BETWEEN KSID DEVELOPING TYPE 1 DIABETES AND AFRTE COVID DIAGNOSIS, THERE’S AN ASSOCIATION THERE BUT IN GENERAL, MOST LONG COVID SYTOMPMS ARE LESS IN KIDS WHO ARE VACCINATED AND AGAIN, STMO OF THE DATA CESOM FROM THE PRE-VACCINATION ERA. WE DON’T KNOW WILL VACCINATION WILL DO WITHHE T NUMBERS. ERIKA: FOR VIEWERS WHO MAY BE CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR DIABESTE RISK, WHAT ARE SOME OF ETH EARLIEST SYMPTS?OM >> IF YOU’RE UNDIAGNOSED, YOU MIGHT START TO URINATE TLO MORE FREQUENTLY, BE VERY THIRSTY AND LOSING WEIGHT IN UNEXPECTED WAY. THOSE ARE SYMPTOMS OF DIAGNOSIS OF DIABETES. YOU SHOULD SKEE MED
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Massachusetts doctor discusses link between COVID-19 and developing diabetes
Updated: 6:16 PM EDT Mar 28, 2022
Dr. Brian Hollenbeck, chief of infectious diseases at New England Baptist Hospital, discusses new studies that associate an increased risk for developing diabetes and COVID-19 infection.
Dr. Brian Hollenbeck, chief of infectious diseases at New England Baptist Hospital, discusses new studies that associate an increased risk for developing diabetes and COVID-19 infection.
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