A BBC report quotes Dr Rahul Baxi, a Mumbai based diabetologist saying: “The worry is that Covid-19 could trigger a tsunami of diabetes in India after the pandemic is over.”
He said 8-10% of his patients with no history of diabetes who contracted Covid-19 continued to have high sugar levels months after recovery and were on medication.
“Some have borderline diabetes. Others are managing with medicines even a year after recovery,” he said.
Doctors around the world are debating whether Covid-19 itself is causing diabetes in patients with no previous history.