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ajlm-2302	Severaj, Rucita; Gounden, Verena	Effect of COVID-19 lockdown on glycated haemoglobin testing and utilisation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	2024		.htm	text/html	5918	325	55	Studies conducted in China in 2022 and Taiwan in 2021 found no significant difference in HbA1c results between the pandemic and pre-pandemic periods.33,34 Remarkably, a study conducted in Spain in 2021 instead reported improved glycaemic control during the pandemic, and this was supported by two systematic reviews and meta-analyses performed in the United Kingdom and Germany in 2021.35,36,37 In contrast to the findings of these studies, we found a significant increase in the average HbA1c result during the pandemic of 2.2 mmol/mol (0.2%) overall and in nine of the districts, indicating poorer glycaemic control during the pandemic where decreased numbers of HbA1c tests were being conducted. [> 7.0%]) in both period 1 and period 2. We also plotted the number of HbA1c test results that fell within different HbA1c ranges, and compared pre-pandemic results with results from during the pandemic.	cache/ajlm-2302.htm	txt/ajlm-2302.txt