COVID-19 may cause diabetes

[urbanracer]

Resurrecting this thread as there's an interesting article in today's Guardian.

 

[CoolUserName]

Resurrecting this thread as there's an interesting article in today's Guardian.

That is very interesting , thank you for drawing attention to it. I read something about transdifferentiation of beta cells somewhere else recently, maybe a linked research paper.

It would be interesting to see if the people who developed T1D after covid predominantly have a genetic predisposition that was triggered to cause transdifferentiation.

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[Doug88]

I’ve been reading up about this, after myself being diagnosed Type 1 last month, age 37. I may have had COVID and been asymptomatic, or just had mild symptoms (I had a period of fatigue and a light cough early last summer, but was never tested).
I’ll never know, but I’ll be watching it closely. A poster on another forum I’m on - not a diabetes one - said her friend developed T1 following a mild case of COVID. She was in her 30s too.

Just to add one more, my T1D onset was in the first spring of COVID following what I thought was a throat infection but now think might have been COVID (who knows though - i mean a persistant cough isn't exactly something out of the ordinary with a throat infrection). This was before antigen tests were widely available and by the time they were widespread, I think there'd have been plenty chance for me to have asymptomatic COVID too.

I'm not too bothered finding out for sure for my own sake - doesn't really change anything. But I do think that it would be useful information for people/governments considering whether we should just learn to live with the disease in our population.

 

[lucylocket61]

Resurrecting this thread as there's an interesting article in today's Guardian.

I saw this, and found this, which the article has a link to, fascinating.

https://stemcellsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/stem.3059

 

[NicoleC1971]

That is very interesting , thank you for drawing attention to it. I read something about transdifferentiation of beta cells somewhere else recently, maybe a linked research paper.

It would be interesting to see if the people who developed T1D after covid predominantly have a genetic predisposition that was triggered to cause transdifferentiation.

Most of the adult onset type 1s in my local group developed the condition following on from a bout of illness or stress (known pre cursors to type 1) so I doubt Covid is unique in triggering an autoimmune response that then goes awry.

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[In Response]

I found this article interesting with regard to this topic
https://www.theguardian.com/society...-in-pancreas-that-make-insulin-research-shows

 

[lucylocket61]

I found this article interesting with regard to this topic
https://www.theguardian.com/society...-in-pancreas-that-make-insulin-research-shows

This is the same article as the one @urbanracer linked to above

 

[Antje77]

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[siriusblack]

don’t know if this means anything, but i got covid in march and was diagnosed as t1d july 12th.
there is no known previous history of it in my family.

 

[NicoleC1971]

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[Antje77]

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