The Team from Chellaram Diabetes Institute interviews Dr Binayak Sinha how a rise in both HbA1c and Diabetes-related complications are seen with the increasing duration of the pandemic. Could you explain why this study was conducted? The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS COV-2 (Novel Coronavirus) has pushed the world to the brink of destruction, debility and death. To prevent India from imploding due to this monstrous viral onslaught the Government of India had rightly instituted a mobility restriction of all services in the whole country.
This study was conducted as a mathematical model to predict the impact of this mobility restriction on Diabetes control and to predict the effect of the control on complications of Diabetes. What were the findings of the study? First of all we need to realise that these are predictive and mathematical models. These models are mathematically…
