COVID-19 and Diabetes - Issues and Challenges
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 9785
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nutrition; diabetes; obesity; chronic disease; eye health; epidemiology; ageing; global health
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Dear Colleagues,
Diabetes mellitus is a leading cause of avoidable hospitalizations, amputations, cardiovascular events, renal failure, foetal malformations, and blindness, with certain populations including minority groups most affected. People with diabetes are at significant risk if they become infected with COVID-19 and reports showed that about a tenth of people with COVID-19 had diabetes and those with diabetes have markedly higher mortality and extended length of hospital stay especially if they are hyperglycaemic. The COVID-19 pandemic response has impacted on diabetes management and self-management. Lockdown during comparable disasters is directly proportional to worsened glycaemic control and diabetes-related complications, e.g., a 45-day lockdown in India was associated with up to 17% increase in diabetes complications of proliferative diabetic retinopathy, nephropathy, and neuropathy. This risk represents a substantial challenge for the global healthcare system. This Special Issue will collect evidence to understand the impact of the global response to COVID-19 on diabetes management/self-management.
Challenges already existed in implementing evidence-based diabetes care and effective self-management and methods may have been developed in various places during the pandemic to support clinical decision-making.
We will accept manuscripts from different disciplines that explore the impact of the COVID-19 on various types of diabetes including gestational diabetes, diabetes related complications, pregnancy, vaccination, barriers, and challenges to healthcare service, access to health services, etc. Manuscripts that describe emerging support technique/tools which can be used in optimising diabetes care. This Special Issue will also call for work on emerging decision support tools that could be used to in optimising diabetes care, monitor the impact of future pandemic on diabetes outcomes and to enhance diabetes care after the COVID-19 lockdown.
This Special Issue will:
- Describe the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on diabetes care, self-management, and clinical outcomes in primary care in different settings;
- Investigate the potential prognostic factors and impact of various treatments/medication use in diabetes patients with COVID-19;
- Provide evidence about existing decision support tools that can be used to improve “diabetes control” beyond measures that existed prior to the COVID-19 lockdown.
Dr. Osuagwu L. Uchechukwu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- diabetes mellitus
- type 1 diabetes
- type 2 diabetes