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Newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus, DKA, and COVID‐19: Causality or coincidence? A report of three cases
Author(s) -
Suwanwongse Kulachanya,
Shabarek Nehad
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of medical virology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1096-9071
pISSN - 0146-6615
DOI - 10.1002/jmv.26339
Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , asymptomatic , covid-19 , coronavirus , pandemic , outbreak , disease , pneumonia , causality (physics) , pediatrics , intensive care medicine , virology , endocrinology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , physics , quantum mechanics
Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), a 2020 pandemic, has resulted in an unexpected loss in lives, quality of life, and the economy. The COVID‐19 clinical spectrum varies from asymptomatic to death, and its complications may involve various organs. Notwithstanding, the impact of COVID‐19 on endocrine systems is understudied. Previous coronavirus outbreaks such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus can cause new‐onset diabetes mellitus (DM). However, there were only two previous case reports on newly diagnosed DM in COVID‐19 patients. Here, we described three patients who had newly diagnosed DM associated with COVID‐19. COVID‐19 likely unmasked existing DM by aggravating its metabolic complications rather than causing the new‐onset DM in these patients. However, more research is needed to evaluate if there is a casual relationship between the development of DM, DKA, and COVID‐19.