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Related: About this forumDoctors probe whether COVID-19 is causing diabetes
Source: Reuters
HEALTHCARE & PHARMACEUTICALS
OCTOBER 19, 2020 7:24 AM UPDATED 11 MINUTES AGO
Doctors probe whether COVID-19 is causing diabetes
By Chad Terhune
8 MIN READ
(Reuters) - Mario Buelna, a healthy 28-year-old father, caught a fever and started having trouble breathing in June. He soon tested positive for COVID-19.
Weeks later, after what had seemed like a recovery, he felt weak and started vomiting. At 3 a.m. on Aug. 1, he passed out on the floor of his home in Mesa, Arizona.
Paramedics rushed him to a nearby hospital, where doctors put him in intensive care after saving him from a coma. They told him he could have died. Their diagnosis type 1 diabetes stunned and frightened him. He had no history of the disease.
COVID triggered it, Buelna said the doctors told him.
Buelnas ordeal and similar cases reflect a new worry about the dangerous relationship between diabetes and COVID-19 thats being urgently studied by doctors and scientists around the world. Many experts are convinced that COVID-19 can trigger the onset of diabetes - even in some adults and children who do not have the traditional risk factors.
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OCTOBER 19, 2020 7:24 AM UPDATED 11 MINUTES AGO
Doctors probe whether COVID-19 is causing diabetes
By Chad Terhune
8 MIN READ
(Reuters) - Mario Buelna, a healthy 28-year-old father, caught a fever and started having trouble breathing in June. He soon tested positive for COVID-19.
Weeks later, after what had seemed like a recovery, he felt weak and started vomiting. At 3 a.m. on Aug. 1, he passed out on the floor of his home in Mesa, Arizona.
Paramedics rushed him to a nearby hospital, where doctors put him in intensive care after saving him from a coma. They told him he could have died. Their diagnosis type 1 diabetes stunned and frightened him. He had no history of the disease.
COVID triggered it, Buelna said the doctors told him.
Buelnas ordeal and similar cases reflect a new worry about the dangerous relationship between diabetes and COVID-19 thats being urgently studied by doctors and scientists around the world. Many experts are convinced that COVID-19 can trigger the onset of diabetes - even in some adults and children who do not have the traditional risk factors.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-diabetes-insight/doctors-probe-whether-covid-19-is-causing-diabetes-idUSKBN2741ET
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Doctors probe whether COVID-19 is causing diabetes (Original Post)
Eugene
Oct 2020
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dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)1. Is there anything this virus can't do? Terrifying.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)3. I agree. I used to be frightened. Now I'm terrified too.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)2. K&R!