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A large new study found that people who recovered from Covid-19 within the past year are 40% more likely to receive a new diagnosis of diabetes compared to those who weren’t infected.  The increased risk translates into 1% of people who have had Covid-19 developing diabetes who otherwise wouldn’t have, the study’s author says, resulting in potentially millions of new cases world-wide.  Most of the people with diabetes in the study, published online Monday in the journal Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, were diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, not Type 1. Some researchers say Covid-19 could also be triggering an entirely new type of diabetes in which certain cells mistakenly start to raise, rather than lower, blood sugar.  The study adds to evidence showing an increased post-...

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Their data was compared to the medical records of more than 4.1 million VA patients who were not infected during the same period and another 4.28 million who received medical care from VA in 2018 and 2019. This kind of study cannot prove cause and effect, but it showed a strong association between the two diseases. Story continues below advertisement Overall, the researchers calculated that people diagnosed with covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, were 46 percent more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes for the first time or be prescribed medication to control their blood sugar. The research was released Monday in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, a medical journal. Put another way, 2 in 100 covid patients were more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes, a condition in ...

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Everyone has heard that you have to watch your cholesterol, but many only have a vague idea of what this substance even is. "Cholesterol is a waxy substance made in the liver," says Johna Burdeos, RD. "Cholesterol helps protect nerves, make cell tissue, and certain hormones. It is also in foods—dairy products, eggs, and meat." It's important to note the two types of cholesterol—low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. Many refer to LDL cholesterol as the "bad" variety, due to the fact that this type builds up in your arteries and can cause a variety of problems, while HDL "good" cholesterol simply gets broken down and disposed of in your liver. High amounts of LDL cholesterol and low amounts of HDL cholest...

“I want to move on, too,” said Colledge, 70, of Salt Lake City. “It’s kind of confusing for me because I feel like, ‘What about me? Why am I safer now than I would’ve been, I don’t know, three months ago?’ ” Story continues below advertisement The unsettling answer for Colledge is that her risk continues to be dangerously high because of her illness, even though transmission of the coronavirus has dropped significantly. Which means she must now do a risk-benefit calculus for every journey outside of her home. But for many other Americans, there was palpable relief on Feb. 25, when the CDC shifted the vast majority of U.S. counties from red — signaling high transmission — to green, meaning low levels of disease and no need to mask indoors. The changes were based on a new framework des...

For months, Jaylin Scott had picked at her armpits. She would dig at her skin any time of the day — even in her sleep — until it bled and burned. These episodes would make her scream and cry in pain, drained by the compulsion to level out her skin. “In my mind I’m screaming at myself to stop picking, stop picking, but I just couldn’t,” Scott said. “I had to have someone physically pull my arm away.” The dry heat where she worked as a lifeguard in Las Vegas was intense, but she couldn’t wear deodorant because picking made her skin raw, so she constantly worried about body odor, too. “It felt really shameful,” Scott said. “I became disgusted with myself.” T...

Chris Newman, a wildlife biologist at the University of Oxford and a co-author of one of the studies, said that his Chinese colleagues saw a number of wild mammals for sale at the Huanan market in late 2019. Any of them might have been responsible for the pandemic, Dr. Holmes said. “You can’t prove raccoon dogs yet, but they’re certainly a suspect,” he said. Some critics have questioned how sure Dr. Holmes and his colleagues can be that a Huanan animal was to blame. Although many of the earliest Covid cases were linked to the market, it’s possible that other cases of pneumonia have not yet been recognized as early Covid cases. “We still know far too little about the earliest cases — and there are likely additional cases we don’t know about — to draw final conclusions,” said Filippa Lentzo...