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COVID-19 ‘worsens insulin resistance’ for children with DKA

A study of hospital patients with type 1 diabetes links the infection with increased metabolic morbidity
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31 August 2022
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Children with type 1 diabetes experience greater insulin resistance during diabetic ketoacidosis if they are infected with SARS-CoV-2, US doctors warn.

Results from their single-centre study suggest that COVID-19 provokes metabolic derangement “over and above” traditional factors associated with paediatric diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA).

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