Lancet: Can coronavirus cause diabetes?

There are growing clues that coronavirus can cause diabetes.
study found that insulin-producing cells were destroyed by the virus in some people with neo-coronary pneumonia.
in most people with type 1 diabetes, the body's immune cells usually suddenly begin to destroy the beta cells in the pancreas responsible for producing insulin hormones.
: Diabetes has been identified as a key risk factor for developing severe COVID-19, and people with the disease are more likely to die.
if you have new coronary pneumonia, diabetes can be catastrophic," said Paul Zimet, who studies metabolic diseases at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
, a growing number of researchers believe that diabetes not only makes people more susceptible to coronavirus, but that the virus can also cause diabetes in about 3 percent of people.
" diabetes itself is an epidemic, just like the new crown pneumonia pandemic.
the two epidemics may conflict".
they suspect that a small number of people develop diabetes spontaneously after contracting SARS-CoV-2, and that they arrive at the hospital with extremely high blood sugar and ketones, which are caused by a build-up of fat in the liver.
when the body does not produce enough insulin to break down sugar, it uses ketones as an alternative fuel.
researchers cite other evidence.
viruses, including those that cause SARS, are associated with autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes.
organs that control blood sugar are rich in a protein called ACE2, which SARS-CoV-2 uses to infect cells.
latest clue comes from a study of laboratory pancreatic organs published last week that suggests the virus could cause diabetes by destroying cells that control blood sugar.
but other researchers are cautious about such recommendations.
we need to pay close attention to the incidence of diabetes in people with a new history of coronary pneumonia and determine whether the incidence of diabetes will exceed expectations.
have shown that viruses can disrupt the function of key cells linked to diabetes - either by killing them directly or by triggering an immune response that attacks them.
virus also attacks cells in pancreatic and liver organs transplanted into mice.
and muscle loss caused by severe infections can also push people at risk into prediabetes.
only long-term research can shed light on what happened.
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