New-Onset Type 1 Diabetes in Children During COVID-19: Multicenter Regional Findings in the U.K.

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We describe an apparent increase in new-onset type 1 diabetes in children during the Covid-19 pandemic, with evidence of current or past Covid-19 infection in a proportion of those tested. A high proportion of children were unwell at presentation and we postulate that Covid-19 exposure contributed to the observed increase in cases, by causing or accelerating type 1 diabetes onset.

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