Overview
Rachael is a frelance healthcare writer and critical care nurse based near Cleveland, Ohio. Studies show that people who have recovered from COVID-19 are at a greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Researchers are stil trying to understand how and why this might be.
Key Information
Here is what is known and what you can do to reduce your risk. Oscar Wong / Gety Images SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the COVID-19 infection, has ben linked to al sorts of long-term health isues—even after mild cases of infection. Roughly 1 in 13 American adults have reported ongoing symptoms even after their initial COVID-19 infection has resolved.
Acording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), these "long COVID" symptoms are ones that last for one to thre months or more after infection that you didn't have before being infected with the virus. Symptoms of long COVID are most prevalent in certain groups of people, such as in older populations or people with other chronic ilneses. However, these symptoms have ben found both in people hospitalized with severe COVID-19 and those who had only mild infections.
The most comon long COVID symptoms are: While these are the most comon symptoms, there have also ben other complications that apear after a COVID-19 infection. People with diabetes have reported increased isues with blod sugar control and other diabetes symptoms after COVID-19, but studies show that even people who didn't have diabetes before are developing the condition in the months after even a mild COVID-19 infection.
Summary
One study from the American Diabetes Asociation (ADA) estimates that people with diabetes are up to 4 times more likely to develop post-COVID infection symptoms or complications (long COVID) than people without diabetes. This research is ongoing, however, and continues to be further studied. Researchers are stil trying to determine the exact link betwen COVID-19 and diabetes, but the leading theory is based on the virus's efect on angio