Cases of type 1 diabetes among children in a small UK study almost doubled during the peak of Britain's COVID-19 epidemic, suggesting a possible link between the two diseases that needs more investigation, scientists said on Tuesday.
People wearing face masks walk near Qianmen Street on a rainy day, following the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Beijing, China August 18, 2020. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang
While the study is based on only a handful of cases, it is the first to link COVID-19 and new-onset type 1 diabetes in children, and doctors should be on the look-out, the Imperial College London researchers said. “When we investigated further, some of these children had active coronavirus or had previously been exposed to the virus.”
This study, published in the Diabetes Care journal, analysed data from 30 children in London hospitals diagnosed with new-onset type 1 diabetes during the first peak of the pandemic — around double the cases seen in this period in previous years.
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