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Diabetes has reached crisis levels in the U.S., with 10.5% of Americans affected.1 That data came from 2018 — before the pandemic — and the problem has only worsened since. Diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2017,2 but diabetes deaths surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, rising 17% in 2020.3 While COVID-19 was a problem — 39.5% of COVID-19 deaths occurred among people with diabetes4 — even diabetics who didn’t get COVID-19 suffered, often falling victim t...

email article Young people were more likely to be initially diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (T2D) during the pandemic, while there was a significant increase in the number of new-onset pediatric T2D cases during the first 9 months of the COVID-19 crisis, researchers reported. Most of these cases involved non-Hispanic Black children and males, according to presentations at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) virtual meeting. The researchers rationale for conducting these studies of pedi...

By their side College sophomore Nick Opack has Type 1 diabetes. So does his younger sister and their father. For years they’ve relied on dogs who are specially trained to detect the scent of low blood sugar and alert them when something is wrong. By Amy Halpern | April 12, 2021 Nick, right, with his father, Larry, and their dogs Rainy (blue collar) and Clyde. Photo by Lindsey Max The alert on Colleen Opack’s cellphone went off around 4 a.m. She grabbed the phone from her nightstand and ...