"Covid pandemic linked to surge in child and teen diabetes A new study in JAMA Network Open journal has collated available data from different countries, including the UK, on more than 38,000 young people diagnosed during the pandemic. The authors describe the increase in cases of diabetes as "substantial". More work is needed to understand why the rise is happening, they say. Some of the rise could be attributed to catch-up - from backlogs and delays when health services were shut - but does not explain all of the newly diagnosed cases, say scientists. Before the pandemic, the incidence rate of childhood type 1 diabetes was already increasing - by about 3% a year. The recent study found: there was a 14% rise in the rate during the first year of the pandemic, compared to before Covid in the second year of Covid, the rate was up about 27% on pre-pandemic levels 🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-66054946 #Covid #Covid19 #LongCovid #diabetes #Pediatrics #health #science