During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare delivery was affected in various ways. For example, acute and chronic cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and events were less frequently observed in hospitals, both because public health measures favored reduced contact between patients themselves as well as between patients and their healthcare providers.

Patients may have also developed a fear of contracting COVID-19 and becoming seriously ill, which may have also contributed to reduced rates of hospitalization for non-COVID-19 illnesses.

Early on in the pandemic, DM was found to increase the risk of severe COVID-19; however, there remains a lack of data on the impact of DM on morbidity and mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

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