It isn’t clear why, but researchers are investigating a possible COVID link
The little girl felt poorly, but both she and her mom thought they knew the reason. Aliyah Davis, just nine years old, was battling COVID. Fatigued, repeatedly sick to her stomach, with no sense of smell or taste and some shortness of breath, she seemed to have a near-textbook case of the virus.
On one side, diabetes is a key risk factor for developing serious illness or dying after catching COVID. But we now also have multiple reports of patients who contract COVID-19 and then go on to develop new-onset diabetes and sometimes severe imbalances in their blood sugar, such as diabetic ketoacidosis .
A new diabetes diagnosis is a serious concern with the potential to change a person’s life. As a chronic condition, it affects how the body uses blood sugar , and it can wreak havoc years down the line. Possible complications include kidney failure, heart attacks, stroke, nerve damage, macular degeneration, blindness, vascular issues and even amputations.
Reports of increasing diabetes rates in children are “in line” with several emerging observations internationally, says Paolo Fiorina, a diabetes expert and research associate at Boston Children’s Hospital–Harvard Medical School. Finnish, Romanian, Italian, German and Australian researchers all have found that more children were diagnosed with new-onset type one diabetes during the pandemic than prepandemic.
Some scientists theorize that COVID-19 might lead to diabetes through a direct attack of pancreatic cells. Research has shown that the coronavirus can infect insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, the so-called beta cells. Autopsy results of COVID-19 victims have confirmed viral antigen presence and even damage to some of these beta cells.
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