Incidence Trends of New-Onset Diabetes in Children and Adolescents Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings From Florida. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • This study examined the incidence trends of new-onset type 1 and type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents in Florida before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this observational descriptive cohort study, we used a validated computable phenotype to identify incident diabetes cases among individuals <18 years of age in the OneFlorida+ network of the national Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network between January 2017 and June 2021. We conducted an interrupted time series analysis based on the autoregressive integrated moving average model to compare changes in age-adjusted incidence rates of type 1 and type 2 diabetes before and after March 2020, when COVID-19 was declared a national health emergency in the U.S. The age-adjusted incidence rates of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes increased post-COVID-19 for children and adolescents. These results highlight the need for longitudinal cohort studies to examine how the pandemic might influence subsequent diabetes onset in young individuals.

publication date

  • December 1, 2022

Research

keywords

  • COVID-19
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC9750945

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85142403642

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.2337/db22-0549

PubMed ID

  • 36094294

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 71

issue

  • 12