From the start, the scariest thing about COVID has been how much we don’t understand about it. Now that we’re a few years in, there’s much more concrete data on which to make evidence-based decisions. But medical science is still examining how infection may impact our lives long-term. A new study suggests that people who’ve been infected with COVID are at higher risk of developing diabetes.
The study, which was released yesterday in the medical journal The Lancet, used years of data from the medical records of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to make their analysis. First, researchers reviewed the records of 181,200 patients diagnosed with coronavirus infections between March 2020 September 2021. They then compared those records with 4.1 million VA patients who were not infected during the same period and 4.28 million VA patients from 2018 and 2019.
