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Children and teenagers are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes in the months after COVID-19, according to international researchers. The team collected health data from just over 300,000 young people aged 10-19 who were diagnosed with COVID-19, and a further 300,000 of the same age who had other respiratory infections. At one month, three and six months after their infection, the researchers say the children who'd had COVID-19 were consistently more likely to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes compared to the other group. They say it's unclear whether this increase in diagnoses will persist through the lives of these children, but a potential link between COVID-19 and diabetes needs to be looked at when considering how important it is to prevent COVID-19 in children.
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About The Study: In this retrospective cohort study of children and adolescents ages 10 to 19, the risk of an incident diagnosis of type 2 diabetes was greater following a COVID-19 diagnosis than in children diagnosed with other respiratory infections. Further study is required to determine whether diabetes persists or reverses later in life.
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