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. 2023 Jun 20;329(23):2089-2091.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.8674.

Type 1 Diabetes Incidence and Risk in Children With a Diagnosis of COVID-19

Andreas Weiss  1 , Ewan Donnachie  2 , Andreas Beyerlein  3 , Anette-G Ziegler  1 , Ezio Bonifacio  4
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Type 1 Diabetes Incidence and Risk in Children With a Diagnosis of COVID-19

Andreas Weiss et al. JAMA. .
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This study used a population-based individual patient data set that included diagnoses of COVID-19 to determine whether there was a temporal association between COVID-19 and type 1 diabetes in children.

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Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

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Figure.. Incidence Rates for Type 1 Diabetes in Children With and Without a COVID-19 Diagnosis
A, Incidence rate of type 1 diabetes before the pandemic (2018-2019) and during the pandemic (2020-2021) for 1 181 096 children with medical insurance claims data. B, For children in the pandemic period, the incidence rate of type 1 diabetes is shown from January 2020 to December 2021 in the absence of a preceding or concurrent COVID-19 diagnosis (light blue bar), during the quarter with the COVID-19 diagnosis (dark blue bar), and for the 2 quarters (6 calendar months) and subsequent quarters (6 to 15 calendar months) after the COVID-19 diagnosis quarter (blue bars). The number of cases of type 1 diabetes and the person-years of follow-up per group are indicated. Error bars indicate 95% binomial CIs of the respective incidence rate estimate.
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