How has Covid-19 affected the care of patients with diabetes?

Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce is associate professor at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, and her team published  a paper at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic predicting how care for patients with conditions like diabetes might worsen during national emergencies like the Covid pandemic. 

She also had a paper in Diabetes care looking at the evidence that patients with diabetes were at increased risk of more severe Covid-19, and has also looked at whether Covid-19 infection may itself lead to a higher risk of developing diabetes.

There is now some evidence starting to emerge that a significant number of patients with diabetes may have been lost to follow up during the pandemic, and others may now have poorer control, although there is some variation within different subgroups. We discussed what this might mean for the care of patients with diabetes, and other long term conditions, and how we might now start to address this problem.

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