Anthropometric Measurements and Laboratory Investigations in Children and Youth With Type 1 Diabetes Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Our aim in this study was to compare rates of anthropometric, blood pressure (BP) and glycated hemoglobin (A1C) measurements and laboratory screening for hypothyroidism, nephropathy and dyslipidemia in children and youth with type 1 diabetes (T1D), 1 year before and after the onset of COVID-19.

Methods

Clinical data were analyzed from a voluntary registry of children and youth with T1D followed at the BC Children's Hospital between March 2019 and 2021. Logistic and Poisson mixed-effect models were used.

Results

Four hundred forty patients with a median (interquartile range) age and time since diagnosis of 12.7 (9.5 to 15.4) and 4.7 (2.6 to 7.9) years, respectively, were included. Clinic visits were all in-person before March 2020, and 99% via telemedicine a

SUBMITTER: Silva C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9009070 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature