J Med Virol . Newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus, DKA and COVID-19: causality or coincidence? - A report of 3 cases

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J Med Virol


. 2020 Jul 24.
doi: 10.1002/jmv.26339. Online ahead of print.
Newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus, DKA and COVID-19: causality or coincidence? - A report of 3 cases


Kulachanya Suwanwongse ¹ , Nehad Shabarek ¹



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• PMID: 32706395
• DOI: 10.1002/jmv.26339

Abstract

Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a 2020 pandemic, has resulted in an unexpected loss of lives, quality of life, and 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 outbreak such as SARS-CoV 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 casualty relationship between the development of DM, DKA, and COVID-19. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

Keywords: COVID-19; DKA; DM; SARS-CoV-2.