People With Diabetes Appear To Have Increased Risks For Serious Infections,

“Compared with the general public, people with diabetes – and type 1 diabetes, in particular – have increased risks for serious infections,” researchers found after evaluating “data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink on 102,493 English primary care patients aged 40 to 89 years with a diabetes diagnosis by 2008 (type 1 diabetes, n = 5,863; type 2 diabetes, n = 96,630) and 203,518 age-, sex- and practice-matched controls without diabetes.” The findings were published in Diabetes Care. https://www.healio.com/endocrinology/diabetes/news/in-the-journals/%7B1632e80f-36eb-4ac2-a6e4-4ce14f446edc%7D/infection-risks-may-increase-with-type-1-diabetes