Virtual Learning and Youth-Onset Type 2 Diabetes during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors' conclusion
This study provides timely insights into an important and modifiable correlate of Y-T2D incidence, its disproportionate impact on underserved communities, and the need to consider the effects on long-term health outcomes and preexisting healthcare inequities when designing public policy.
Study context
- Population
- Youth with newly diagnosed youth-onset T2D at a pediatric tertiary care center in Washington, DC
- Participants
- 387 newly diagnosed cases
- Exposure
- Pandemic virtual learning vs pre-pandemic and pandemic in-person learning periods
- Outcome
- Incidence of Y-T2D (cases/month) by learning period
Methodological detailssingle-centre, retrospective chart review
- Single-centre
- Retrospective chart review
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Incident Y-T2D cases
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Y-T2D incidence by race/ethnicity · throughout the study period
- Fold-higher incidence among non-Hispanic Black youth
- 16.9 (95% CI: 9.8-29.1, p < 0.001)
- Fold-higher incidence among Latinx youth
- 5.1 (95% CI: 2.9-9.1, p < 0.001)
COVID-19 infection at diagnosis
- Overall COVID-19 infection rate
- 2.5%
- Not associated with diabetes incidence
- P = 0.26
Original publication
Virtual Learning and Youth-Onset Type 2 Diabetes during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Horm Res Paediatr. Published 30 June 2023. doi:10.
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