Infection with COVID-19 has produced a wide range of new, returning, and ongoing post-COVID health outcomes, including an increased risk of developing diabetes.
A recent systematic review and meta-analysis published in Nature, found that COVID-19 was associated with a 66 percent higher risk of new onset diabetes. The review screened 853 studies before yielding eight studies, from three countries, consisting of over 47 million participants, with the highest risk found in the United States, compared to those in Europe.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that nearly 11 percent of the population in the United States has been diagnosed with diabetes. More than 100,000 Americans died from the disease in 2021….