Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began
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Re: Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began
#2Sociodemographic factors, average body mass index, fasting and random glucose levels, and hemoglobin A1c concentrations didn't change from 2016 to 2021.
That's especially perplexing.
Re: Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began
#3Sociodemographic factors, average body mass index, fasting and random glucose levels, and hemoglobin A1c concentrations didn't change from 2016 to 2021. That's especially perplexing.
Were these communities not affected by the lockdowns?
Surely, remote learning and cancellation of intramural sports, etc, led to worse average fittness.
Re: Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began
#4>Rates of type 2 diabetes were 62% higher (IRR, 1.62) in 2020 to 2021 than in 2016 to 2019. The incidence of type 2 diabetes rose from 14.8 to 24.7 per 100,000 person-years over that time.
That is a huge jump. Is it possible there was more widespread testing of at risk populations? If they are simultaneously reporting no notable changes in average BMI, my knee jerk thought is populations cannot change that quickly.
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Re: Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began
#6Sociodemographic factors, average body mass index, fasting and random glucose levels, and hemoglobin A1c concentrations didn't change from 2016 to 2021. That's especially perplexing.
Isn't diabetes defined as a certain A1C?
How could both possibly be true?
Re: Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began
#7>Rates of type 2 diabetes were 62% higher (IRR, 1.62) in 2020 to 2021 than in 2016 to 2019. The incidence of type 2 diabetes rose from 14.8 to 24.7 per 100,000 person-years over that time. That is a huge jump. Is it possible there was more widespread testing of at risk populations? If they are simultaneously reporting no notable changes in average BMI, my knee jerk thought is populations cannot change that quickly.
> my knee jerk thought is populations cannot change that quickly.
Covid went through the population quickly and has been known to heavily increase the chances of diabetes, so why would that be a surprise?
Re: Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began
#8Sociodemographic factors, average body mass index, fasting and random glucose levels, and hemoglobin A1c concentrations didn't change from 2016 to 2021. That's especially perplexing.
Were these communities not affected by the lockdowns? Surely, remote learning and cancellation of intramural sports, etc, led to worse average fittness.
People also ate out less and had more time to cook meals at home instead of eating highly processed foods bought from supermarkets.
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This link is not working for me.
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The obvious followup question to this line of questioning is whether your proposed mechanism is robust enough to cause a 62% year over year increase. I don’t doubt that the spike protein could damage islet cells, frankly I’m not nearly expert enough to evaluate that claim. Assuming it did, I find it pretty unlikely that it causes this much of an effect. Most medicines intentionally designed to cause specific outcomes would be lucky to have an effect this strong.