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Course: Examination of Trends in Diabetes Incidence Among Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ontario, Canada, From March 2020 to September 2021

CME Credits: 1.00

Released: 2022-07-25

A recent study reported an association between COVID-19 infection and new-onset diabetes among people younger than 18 years in the US. The resulting media coverage was extensive, although some experts have criticized the study methods and conclusion validity. There is no clear mechanism by which COVID-19 infection might cause new-onset diabetes. Kamrath et al recently reported an increase in type 1 diabetes incidence among children in Germany during the pandemic. They did not observe an association of COVID-19 and increased type 1 diabetes incidence in the months after infection or an increase in the frequency of autoantibody-negative type 1 diabetes, which prompts the question of whether COVID-19 infection is associated with incident type 1 diabetes. Given the challenges of ascertaining a COVID-19 infection history for children with new-onset diabetes, additional population-based studies investigating changes in diabetes incidence among children during the pandemic are needed. Canada has one of the highest incident rates of type 1 diabetes worldwide. Therefore, this study examined whether diabetes incidence increased during the COVID-19 pandemic among children and youths (aged <18 years) in Ontario, Canada.


Educational Objective
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