Doctors add diabetes to the list of COVID-triggered conditions
Infection with the novel coronavirus may trigger stress-related diabetes, an often temporary form of the disease that occurs when the body begins producing hormones to fight the foreign invader that interfere with normal insulin function. (Pixabay/)Since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, doctors have found that people living with diabetes are at an increased risk of having severe COVID-19 symptoms. But the relationship between these two diseases appears to be two-way: Infection with the novel coronavirus may trigger stress-related diabetes, an often temporary form of the disease that occurs when the body begins producing hormones to fight the foreign invader that interfere with normal insulin function. Now, a group of leading diabetes researchers have published a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine announcing a new initiative to track this evolving relationship between diabetes and COVID-19. The CoviDIAB Project is a global registry of COVID-19 patients who develop diabetes...