What is the association between COVID-19 and type 1 diabetes? EdinburghUni COVID19 Coronavirus SARSCoV2 Type1Diabetes Diabetes
By Bhavana KunkalikarSep 27 2022Reviewed by Aimee Molineux In a recent study published in the Diabetes Care journal, researchers assessed the relationship between incident type 1 diabetes and recent coronavirus disease 2019 Infection.
Early in the epidemic, Public Health Scotland established the Rapid Epidemiological Analysis of Comorbidities and Treatments as Risk Factors for COVID-19 in Scotland study as a matched case-control study comprising all diagnosed SARS-CoV-2 infections in Scotland having up to 10 control individuals per case. These control individuals were matched for age, gender, and general practice.
The first SARS-CoV-2 positive polymerase chain reaction test in the Electronic Communication of Surveillance in Scotland database, which records all PCR testing for COVID-19 countrywide, was used to define SARS-CoV-2 infection. Some persons with a confirmed clinical diagnosis of COVID-19 who had never tested SARS-CoV-2 positive were included in the REACTSCOT cases.
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