Pediatric Diabetes on the Rise : Trends in Incident Diabetes During the COVID-19 Pandemic

© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Endocrine Society..

Context: The effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the incident cases of pediatric type 1 diabetes (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) are not clear.

Objective: To identify trends in incidence and presentation of pediatric new-onset T1D and T2D during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: A retrospective chart review was conducted. Demographics, anthropometrics, and initial laboratory results from patients ages 0 through 21 years who presented with new-onset diabetes to a pediatric tertiary care center were recorded.

Results: During the pandemic, incident cases of pediatric T1D increased from 31 in each of the prior 2 years to 46; an increase of 48%. Incident cases of pediatric T2D increased by 231% from 2019 to 2020. The number of incident cases of pediatric T2D increased significantly more than the number of incident cases of pediatric T1D (P = 0.009). Patients with T2D were more likely to present in diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), though this was not statistically significant (P = 0.093). Severe DKA was higher compared with moderate DKA (P = 0.036) in incident cases of pediatric T2D. During the pandemic, for the first time, incident cases of T2D accounted for more than one-half of all newly diagnosed pediatric diabetes cases (53%).

Conclusions: There were more incident pediatric T1D and T2D cases as well as an increase in DKA severity in T2D at presentation during the COVID-19 pandemic. More importantly, incident T2D cases were higher than the incident T1D during the pandemic. This clearly suggests a disruption and change in the pediatric diabetes trends with profound individual and community health consequences.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:6

Enthalten in:

Journal of the Endocrine Society - 6(2022), 4 vom: 01. Apr., Seite bvac024

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Modarelli, Rachel [VerfasserIn]
Sarah, Salma [VerfasserIn]
Ramaker, Megan E [VerfasserIn]
Bolobiongo, Mboli [VerfasserIn]
Benjamin, Robert [VerfasserIn]
Gumus Balikcioglu, Pinar [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Diabetic ketoacidosis
Journal Article
Pediatric diabetes
Type 1 diabetes
Type 2 diabetes

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 11.03.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1210/jendso/bvac024

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM337966559