THE PANDEMIC’S IMPACT ON DIABETES CARE

While Australia has been lucky to avoid the high COVID-19 infection rates seen in other parts of the globe, we have faced some of the world’s strictest lockdown measures. Researchers at Melbourne’s Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute wanted to understand how this “new normal” impacted on the health and wellbeing of people with diabetes, which might help inform treatment, as well as future pandemic planning.

The diabetes complications program at the Baker Institute is running a long-term study called PREDICT, which tracks the health of people with type 2 diabetes. This put the researchers in a unique position to evaluate