ArticleBMC health services research2023
The effect of COVID-19 pandemic on diabetes care indices in Southern Iran: an interrupted time series analysis.
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- Impact of COVID-19 on metabolic parameters in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2025Article
- The diabetes cascade of care through the 14 years in Iran: findings of nationwide STEPS surveys 2007-2021.Journal of diabetes and metabolic disorders · 2023Article
- Evaluation of the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the all-cause, cause-specific mortality, YLL, and life expectancy in the first 2 years in an Iranian population-an ecological study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundType 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) requires a continues bulk of cares. It is very probable COVID-19 pandemic is affected its healthcare coverage.
methodsThe interrupted time series analysis is used to model the trend of diabetes healthcare indices, such as the health worker visits, physician visits, body mass index (MBI), fasting blood sugar (FBS), and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), before and after the start of COVID-19 pandemic. The reference of data was the totals of all T2DM patients living in Fars Province, Southern Iran, areas covered by Shiraz University of Medical Science (SUMS), from 2019 to 2020.
resultsA significant decrease for visits by the health workers, and physicians was observed by starting COVID-19 pandemic (β
conclusionsWhen the COVID-19 pandemic was announced, T2DM healthcare coverage drastically decreased, but it quickly began to rebound. The health monitoring system could not have any noticeable effects on diabetes outcomes.
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