A new study out this week shows how COVID-19 is affecting the development of diabetes.
Dr. Patti Bononi, an endocrinologist and Medical Director of the AHN Center for Diabetes and Endocrine Health, tells the NewsRadio KDKA morning show that people who have recovered from COVID in the past year are 40% more likely to develop diabetes.
"These patients, for the most part, are not obese, but they looked at age, sex, ethnicity, weight and nothing was protective and affected all groups across the board."
That means that 1% of all people who have had COVID during the course of the pandemic are likely to develop diabetes who otherwise would not, translating to millions of new patients.
The study looked at the records of 181,000 people who were diagnosed with COVID-19 in the past year, drawing from the Veterans Health Administration system.
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