Diabetes in kids after covid infection, and an explanation for long covid
Two interesting articles came out on long Covid, one finding increased type II diabetes in kids and the other finding residual spike protein in many patients that might lead to continued immunologic response and long covid A retrospective cohort study found that new diagnoses of type II diabetes were significantly increased up to six months after Covid diagnosis (see covid diabetes in kids JAMA2024 in dropbox, or doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.39444) Details : --a retrospective cohort study using electronic health records from the TriNetX Global clinical analytics platform used specifically for research (a de-identified database of over 100 million patients from 60 large healthcare organizations across the country and representing diverse geographic areas, self-reported race and ethnicity, age, income, and insurance types including Medicare and Medicaid), between 2020-2023 -- 613,602 patients were evaluated who were aged 10 to 19 wit...