People who’ve had COVID-19 have a higher risk of developing diabetes, and that link seems to have persisted into the Omicron era, a new study finds.
Mounting evidence suggests COVID-19 infections are tied to a new diagnosis of diabetes, though it’s not clear whether this relationship is a coincidence or cause-and-effect., published Tuesday in JAMA Network Open, researchers at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles studied the medical records of more than 23,000 adults who’d had COVID-19 at least once.
The researchers realized this could make them more likely to get a new diagnosis of a condition, such as diabetes, that they may have been developing anyway. To control for this, they also looked at the risk of something they called a benchmark diagnosis — a new diagnosis of either acid reflux or a UTI — as a way to address this bias.
Dr. Luke Wander, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, said the findings echo those of several other studies. Several studies have suggested that Omicron causes less severe COVID-19 infections than the variants that preceded it.
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