Help needed please—newly diagnosed type 1

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Bebo919

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My son who is 21 was diagnosed this week with type 1. He started to lose weight about 4 month ago. I think he got COVID-19 and I see the same with your brother. I hear about huge increase in Type 1 diabetes cases during the last 3-6 month and COVID 19 could be the cause.
 
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Haidi

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Bebo919 said:
My son who is 21 was diagnosed this week with type 1. He started to lose weight about 4 month ago. I think he got COVID-19 and I see the same with your brother. I hear about huge increase in Type 1 diabetes cases during the last 3-6 month and COVID 19 could be the cause.
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Oh, I am so sorry to hear that, I know how you must feel and I'm sending you a big, virtual hug!
COVID-19 could definitely be the cause and there is even a new international registry for cases of newly diagnosed diabetes in those who tested positive for the virus (so called COVID-19-related diabetes) led by a group of researchers from the King's College London: http://covidiab.e-dendrite.com

Here's also a short article on this topic if you're interested:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2018688

They still don't know whether this type of diabetes will have the same characteristics of an actual type 1, type 2, etc., or some entirely new type of diabetes...
 
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