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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

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Sociodemographic 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.

How so? Ate more healthily at home, walked more, got outside more generally. Physical health likely improved with lockdowns.

Re: Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began

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Diabetes is complex and a simplistic jump to "Covid directly causes Diabetes" is very likely incorrect. From the article itself: Diabetes risk factors may have been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic including limited physical activity, increased sedentary behaviors, sleep disturbances, and increased intake of processed foods. and note that diabetes has increased in very specific groups, not generally at the sa…

Early-onset T2DM is quite different. It’s very plausible something’s up.

Re: Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began

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Let’s fix this. There’s funding already allocated to improve ventilation in schools. Since the coronavirus is endemic we’re going to be dealing with these increased risks for decades. Why can’t we get this done? Let’s actually save the children for once.

Re: Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Were these communities not affected by the lockdowns? Surely, remote learning and cancellation of intramural sports, etc, led to worse average fittness.

How so? Ate more healthily at home, walked more, got outside more generally. Physical health likely improved with lockdowns.

Research from all over the world indicates that this isn't the case. At least, not generally. It may be the case for you.

Re: Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Were these communities not affected by the lockdowns? Surely, remote learning and cancellation of intramural sports, etc, led to worse average fittness.

How so? Ate more healthily at home, walked more, got outside more generally. Physical health likely improved with lockdowns.

I’ve noticed that some of my friends are in better shape, but most are fatter and are in worse shape.

I think lockdowns + wfh pushed most people to one extreme or the other.

Re: Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began

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There are too many negations in your comment for me to understand its meaning. "I do think anyone can agree that pushing the vaccine..." "Is terrorism?" Or did you mean the opposite of that?

i'm not sure whether i should be more confused at your implication that three negations of what i said would be what i meant, or that "i don't think anyone can disagree" is a difficult thing to parse

Re: Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began

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Diabetes is complex and a simplistic jump to "Covid directly causes Diabetes" is very likely incorrect. From the article itself: Diabetes risk factors may have been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic including limited physical activity, increased sedentary behaviors, sleep disturbances, and increased intake of processed foods. and note that diabetes has increased in very specific groups, not generally at the sa…

For type 2 I can see the risk factors of limited physical activity, but type 1? Type 1 is generally something attacking the pancreas. I've been a long time T1 diabetic, and was diagnosed after I had a long term persistent lung infection.

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/diabetes/overvi...

>Type 1 diabetes occurs when your immune system, the body’s system for fighting infection, attacks and destroys the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas. Scientists think type 1 diabetes is caused by genes and environmental factors, such as viruses, that might trigger the disease.

While covid may not have caused this T1 discrepency, it does need investigated.

Re: Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began

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post #16

Diabetes is complex and a simplistic jump to "Covid directly causes Diabetes" is very likely incorrect. From the article itself: Diabetes risk factors may have been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic including limited physical activity, increased sedentary behaviors, sleep disturbances, and increased intake of processed foods. and note that diabetes has increased in very specific groups, not generally at the sa…

COVID directly gave me pre-diabetic symptoms that gradually improved over about 12-18 months. It was really a binary healthy, not healthy switch after the most intense day of sickness.
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