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by machinehermit 2187 days ago
I am overweight, love candy, chocolate, ice cream, both sides of my family have a history of diabetes.

How could you possibly tease out that covid triggered diabetes in me when I am doing such a good job myself?

4 comments

The article suggests it might trigger type 1. You're mostly risking type 2.
There seems to be a growing movement to have two different public facing names as, more and more, people are having trouble parsing out the difference in the written and spoken media, which often just uses the singular term, "diabetes".
Fortunately you are not the only person under consideration, or it would indeed be extraordinarily difficult.
I was wondering the same thing having read on multiple occasions that the majority of Americans are prediabetic they just don't know it yet.
join the cohort and become one with the statistic