Study suggests possible coronavirus link to type 1 diabetesA small study in Britain suggests researchers should be on the look-out over whether COVID-19 increases the risk of type 1 diabetes.
Cases of type 1 diabetes among children may have risen during the peak of Britain's COVID-19 outbreak, scientists said on Monday in the Diabetes Care journal in a study based on 30 cases at two hospitals.
In comparison with a typical year, this represented an 80% increase, they said. "When we investigated further, some of these children had active coronavirus or had previously been exposed to the virus," study co-author Karen Logan of St.