The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on HbA1c Testing: Prioritization of High-Risk Cases and Impact of Social Deprivation

Autor: David Holland, Adrian H. Heald, Fahmy F. W. Hanna, Mike Stedman, Pensée Wu, Julius Sim, Christopher J. Duff, Helen Duce, Lewis Green, Jonathan Scargill, Jonathon D. Howe, Sarah Robinson, Ian Halsall, Neil Gaskell, Andrew Davison, Mark Simms, Angela Denny, Martin Langan, Anthony A. Fryer

INTRODUCTION: Studies show that the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected people with diabetes and those from disadvantaged backgrounds. During the first 6 months of the UK lockdown, > 6.6 M glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) tests were missed. We

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Impact of the UK COVID-19 pandemic on HbA1c testing and its implications for diabetes diagnosis and management

Autor: Jonathan Scargill, Fahmy Hanna, Adrian H Heald, Anthony A. Fryer, Christopher J. Duff, Pensee Wu, Mike Stedman, Neil Gaskell, Lewis Green, David Holland, Ian Halsall

Publikováno v: Holland, D, Heald, A H, Stedman, M, Green, L, Scargill, J, Duff, C J, Hanna, F W F, Wu, P, Halsall, I, Gaskell, N & Fryer, A A 2021, ' Impact of the UK COVID-19 pandemic on HbA1c testing and its implications for diabetes diagnosis and management ', International Journal of Clinical Practice, vol. 75, no. 4 . https://doi.org/10.1111/ijcp.13980

Our findings illustrate the widespread collateral impact of implementing measures to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 in people with, or being investigated for diabetes mellitus (DM). Ironically, failure to focus of the wider implications for people w

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