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22.06.2021 | COVID-19 | Letter to the Editor
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Response to Comment on Marchand et al. Type 1 diabetes onset triggered by COVID-19; and follow-up of the case
verfasst von:
Lucien Marchand, Cédric Luyton
Erschienen in:
Acta Diabetologica
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Ausgabe 9/2021
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We thank Mentari Maratus Sholihah et al. for their comment [
1] on our article published in July 2020 [
2], describing the case of a 29-year-old woman with a medical history of gastric by-pass one year earlier, who presented with acute polyuria-polydipsia syndrome one month after first symptoms of COVID-19. Diabetes mellitus was diagnosed with a glycemia of 3.7 g/l (20.5 mmol/l), nonsignificant ketosis (0.7 mmol/l), and normal bicarbonates level (26 mmol/l). HbA1c level was at 11.8% (105 mmol/mol). Her weight was 57 kg (BMI of 21.5 kg/m
2) at time of diabetes diagnosis. Acid decarboxylase-65 autoantibodies (GAD-65A) were positive (93UI/ml, N < 17). …