{"id":3609,"date":"2023-05-17T14:43:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T19:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=3609"},"modified":"2023-05-17T14:43:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T19:43:15","slug":"verified-covid-19-infection-increases-diabetes-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/05\/17\/verified-covid-19-infection-increases-diabetes-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Verified: COVID-19 Infection Increases Diabetes Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cedars-sinai.org\/newsroom\/verified-covid-19-infection-increases-diabetes-risk\/\">Cedars Sinai<\/a> Results Also Suggest the Diabetes Risk Persists Across COVID-19 Variants, and That Upfront Vaccination May Help to Reduce Risk of Post-Infection Diabetes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Study Verifies COVID-19 Infection Increases Diabetes Risk | Cedars-Sinai\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T00HCrfnVog?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigators in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cedars-sinai.org\/programs\/heart.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Smidt Heart Institute<\/a>&nbsp;at Cedars-Sinai have confirmed that people who have had COVID-19 have an increased risk for new-onset diabetes\u2014the most significant contributor to cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur results validate early findings revealing a risk of developing Type 2 diabetes after a COVID-19 infection and indicate that this risk has, unfortunately, persisted through the Omicron era,\u201d said\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cedars-sinai.org\/provider\/alan-kwan-3311728.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Kwan, MD<\/a>, first and corresponding author of the study and a cardiovascular physician in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trend, Kwan says, is concerning because most people in the United States will eventually experience a COVID-19 infection. \u201cThis research study helps us understand\u2014and better prepare for\u2014the post-COVID-19 era of cardiovascular risk,\u201d Kwan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The findings, published today in the journal&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2022.55965?utm_source=For_The_Media&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=ftm_links&amp;utm_term=021423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>JAMA Network Open<\/em><\/a>, also suggest that the risk of Type 2 diabetes appears lower in individuals who were already vaccinated against COVID-19 by the time they were infected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To determine the rising rates of diabetes, investigators evaluated medical records from 23,709 adult patients who had at least one documented COVID-19 infection and were treated within the Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles from 2020-2022. The average patient was 47 years old, and 54% of subjects were female.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within the study time frame:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The combined risk of Type 2 diabetes after COVID-19 exposure\u2014accounting for both vaccinated and unvaccinated patients\u2014was 2.1%, with 70% occurring after COVID-19 infection versus 30% happening prior to COVID-19 exposure.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The risk of Type 2 diabetes after COVID-19 exposure for unvaccinated patients was 2.7%, with 74% occurring after COVID-19 infection versus 26% happening prior to COVID-19 exposure.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The risk of Type 2 diabetes after COVID-19 exposure for vaccinated patients was 1.0%, with 51% occurring after COVID-19 infection versus 49% happening prior to COVID-19 exposure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese results suggest that COVID-19 vaccination prior to infection may provide a protective effect against diabetes risk,\u201d said Kwan. \u201cAlthough further studies are needed to validate this hypothesis, we remain steadfast in our belief that COVID-19 vaccination remains an important tool in protecting against COVID-19 and the still-uncertain risks that people may experience during the post-infection period.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cedars-sinai.org\/newsroom\/verified-covid-19-infection-increases-diabetes-risk\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cedars Sinai Results Also Suggest the Diabetes Risk Persists Across COVID-19 Variants, and That Upfront Vaccination May Help to Reduce Risk of Post-Infection Diabetes Investigators in the&nbsp;Smidt Heart Institute&nbsp;at Cedars-Sinai have confirmed that people who have had COVID-19 have an increased risk for new-onset diabetes\u2014the most significant contributor to cardiovascular disease. \u201cOur results validate early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"COVID infection increases diabetes risk @CedarsSinai","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-considerations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3610,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions\/3610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}