LONDON : COVID-19 may trigger the onset of diabetes in healthy people, and also cause severe complications in diabetic patients, according to an international group of 17 leading experts in the chronic condition.Based on clinical observations made so far, the scientists, including Stephanie A.
Amiel from King's College London in the UK, said there is a bi-directional relationship between COVID-19 and diabetes.In a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine, they explained that diabetes, on the one hand, is associated with increased risk of COVID-19 severity and mortality with 20 to 30 per cent of patients who died with the infectious disease reported to have diabetes.On the other hand, the researchers said new-onset diabetes.