Study on the effect of the covid-19 pandemic on diabetes patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Keywords:
covid, diabetes, lockdown, anxiety, distress, surveyAbstract
Background
This study geared toward reading the effect of COVID-19 and COVID-19 associated lockdowns on glycemic manipulate in addition to the psycho-social factors in sufferers with type 2 diabetes.
Methods
This changed into a cross-sectional have a look at carried out from a tertiary care middle in Telangana, India. Pre-lockdown and post-lockdown medical elements and the effect of the lockdown on psycho-social elements had been studied in a cohort of 300 sufferers stricken by type 2 diabetes.
Results
The post lockdown post-prandial blood glucose was found to be significantly higher (p=0.035) than the pre-lockdown and also observed higher HbA1c in post lockdown than pre-lockdown (p=0.065). There were varying degrees of anxiety and distress reported in various psycho-social parameters with an overall relatively low average score (2.8 out of 10) on a scale of 0 to 10. Diabetic misery become located to be low, and social aid rankings have been moderately high.
Conclusions
COVID-19 associated lockdowns caused poorer glycemic manage in sufferers tormented by kind 2 diabetes. However, lockdown and COVID-19 associated tension or misery turned into discovered to have a low incidence withinside the studied cohort. It is critical to make sure well timed overview and attention at the best control of continual ailments even at some stage in a lockdown.
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