Relation of Incident Type 1 Diabetes to Recent COVID-19 Infection: Cohort Study Using e-Health Record Linkage in Scotland

What is it about?

COVID-19 infection has been reported to increase the incidence of type 1 diabetes in studies that lack detailed information on dates of onset. We showed that in Scotland whilst type 1 diabetes incidence increased during the pandemic that is was not due to COVID-19 infection itself. Other pandemic related factors therefore underlie this increase.

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