Be careful when citing this study as it has several severe limitations, the most significant of which is they did not control for race/ethnicity or obesity. >

Be careful when citing this study as it has several severe limitations, the most significant of which is they did not control for race/ethnicity or obesity. > "Third, the present analyses lacked information on covariates that could have affected the association between COVID-19 and incident diabetes, including prediabetes, race/ethnicity, and obesity status." It is also important to note that correlation is not causation and this study only observes a correlation in the data set which may very well disappear after controlling for the aforementioned factors.