Covid-19 may trigger the onset of diabetes in previously healthy people

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/12/covid-19-may-trigger-onset-diabetes-previously-healthy-people/

 

Covid-19 may be triggering the onset of diabetes in previously healthy people, experts warned on Friday.

New-onset diabetes is being observed in patients who have tested positive for the virus, an international group of 17 leading diabetes experts wrote in a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine published on Friday.

It remains unclear exactly how the virus that causes Covid-19, impacts diabetes.