Difficulties experienced in diagnosis and follow-up of diabetes mellitus patients during the covid-19 pandemic period: 3 case reports

Abstract

Pandemic periods are one of the reasons patients have difficulty accessing healthcare services. Even diseases such as diabetes mellitus with a high prevalence and easy to diagnose today may delay the diagnosis of patients. Likewise, difficulties may be experienced in the follow-up of these patients due to pandemic period restrictions. We presented 1 diabetes mellitus patient delayed in diagnosis during the COVID-19 pandemic period and 2 diabetes mellitus patients who had difficulties in follow-up due to pandemic restrictions in this case reports.

Keywords

• covid-19
• pandemic
• diabetes mellitus.