A recently concluded study has revealed that during the initial 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, a higher number of minors in Finland than usual were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. The research findings indicate that the cause of this increase was not the virus itself, but rather changes in envi
Data from the Finnish Pediatric Diabetes Register revealed a 16% increase in type 1 diabetes (T1D) incidence among Finnish children during the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Finnish investigators suggest that both increased incidence and severity at diagnosis could be related to pandemic lockdown measures rather than the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself, but other experts aren t sure.