Researchers detect ‘substantial’ pandemic rise in type 1 diabetes amongst children

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Researchers have found that the number of children and teenagers living with type 1 diabetes increased substantially during the pandemic.

Conducting 17 studies on 38,149 children and teenagers newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, the research finds that the incidence rate was 1.14 times in the first year after the pandemic and 1.27 times in the second.