It is not uncommon for an infection with the coronavirus to lead to a severe course of the disease.
German researchers are now reporting a new worrying observation.
The corona virus continues to spread.
Not all infected people also experience severe disease.
But now German researchers are reporting a disturbing observation.
Kiel - While many sick people suffer
from
colds, coughs or fever
from
the
coronavirus *
, the
side effects of
an
infection
with
Covid-19
do not seem to have been fully researched.
However, German researchers are
now reporting in the journal "Nature Metabolism" of an observation and a possible side effect caused by the
coronavirus
*
, which is currently causing the number of infections to rise rapidly, especially in India.
Coronavirus in Germany: patient suffers from diabetes after being infected with the virus
According to this, a 19-year-old
patient
is said
to have
diabetes
after being infected with the
virus *
.
“A 19-year-old patient came to the clinic with newly developed severe diabetes with insulin deficiency.
It showed that he had apparently gone through an infection with Sars-CoV-2 * a few weeks earlier, "explains Matthias Laudes from the
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
(CAU).
The young man was therefore
diagnosed with
type 1 diabetes
.
This type is usually triggered by an autoimmune reaction * in which the immune system
mistakenly believes
the beta cells in the
pancreas are
foreign and attacks them.
But it was precisely this autoimmune reaction that did not occur in the 19-year-old.
"We assume that the
Sars-CoV-2 virus
itself attacked the beta cells here." The resulting disturbed insulin production then led to diabetes.
Coronavirus in Germany: Researchers find a connection between corona and diabetes
However
, it has not yet been possible to say with absolute certainty
whether the
doctors
are correct in their assumption.
It is therefore also conceivable that the young man already had undetected
diabetes
before he became infected with the corona virus.
However, he did not have any symptoms for this.
Further
analyzes of
the possible connection between Covid-19 * and the onset of diabetes are now necessary for clarification.
Researchers from Munich and Dresden were also involved in the work.
* merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen digital editorial network
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