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In December, a new study will begin, which will include 3,000 people with diabetes and 3,000 people without diabetes.
Participants must take a blood sample to see if they have been infected with COVID-19 and answer questionnaires about their mental health, anxiety, depression and quality of life.
– A danger of being identified as a risk group is that people do not dare to seek care because they are encouraged to isolate themselves. The consequence may be that they are at increased risk of diabetes complications, says Johan Jendle, the Örebro researcher leading the study, in a press release.
People from the Örebro, Värmland and Dalarna regions will be asked, this is the first time that a corona study includes people outside of metropolitan areas, according to the university.
Preliminary results are expected to be ready after the summer.
About 450,000 cases of diabetes are registered in the National Diabetes Registry, NDR.
However, the Norwegian Diabetes Association estimates that there are a large number of cases and that there are more like 500,000 cases.
85-90 percent of those with diabetes have type 2.
Type 2 diabetes increases with age. Between ten and 20 percent of the population over 65 years of age contracts the disease.
Source: Diabetes Association
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