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Type 1 and 2 diabetes are among the pre-existing conditions associated with more-severe COVID-19 and a greater risk of death from the infection. A growing number of reports have also linked coronavirus infections with new cases of diabetes, prompting researchers to investigate the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 triggers the metabolic disease.
To answer some of the questions about how the two diseases influence each other, researchers from King’s College London and Monash University in Australia established the COVIDIAB registry last year to compile detailed reports of COVID-19–related diabetes. According to The Guardian, about 350 clinicians have submitted reports to date.
“The relationship between COVID-19 and diabetes is very complex,” Francesco Rubino, the chair of metabolic and bariatric surgery at King’s College London and one of the researchers who started the registry, tells Scientific American. “It might involve more than one issue.”
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