For type 2 I can see the risk factors of limited physical activity, but type 1? Type 1 is generally something attacking the pancreas. I've been a long time T1 diabetic, and was diagnosed after I had a long term persistent lung infection.
>Type 1 diabetes occurs when your immune system, the body’s system for fighting infection, attacks and destroys the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas. Scientists think type 1 diabetes is caused by genes and environmental factors, such as viruses, that might trigger the disease.
While covid may not have caused this T1 discrepency, it does need investigated.
Conversely the rate of increase in Type 1 was much smaller then Type 2.
> Relative to 2016 to 2019, in 2020 to 2021, the incidence of new-onset type 1 diabetes was 17% higher (incidence rate ratio [IRR], 1.17). The incidence was higher among patients aged 10 to 19 years (IRR,1.17), boys (IRR, 1.18), and Hispanic patients (1.21).
> Rates of type 2 diabetes were 62% higher (IRR, 1.62) in 2020 to 2021 than in 2016 to 2019. The incidence of type 2 diabetes rose from 14.8 to 24.7 per 100,000 person-years over that time.
I assume the parent comment was only referring to Type 2 diabetes and made a sibling comment to that affect. However, while we're on the topic, I suppose one can ask why some people have the autoimmune reaction that triggers T1D. Presumably there are genetic, lifestyle, or environmental factors that lead to it, just like celiac or Hashimoto's, etc.
I have a friend (fit, healthy male of 28) who suddenly lost a whole lot of weight and then was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, not too long after having COVID - may have been a coincidence, but it is suspicious...
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/diabetes/overvi...
>Type 1 diabetes occurs when your immune system, the body’s system for fighting infection, attacks and destroys the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas. Scientists think type 1 diabetes is caused by genes and environmental factors, such as viruses, that might trigger the disease.
While covid may not have caused this T1 discrepency, it does need investigated.