“…Due to the extraordinarily high number of COVID-19 patients and the limited resources, the COVID-19 pandemic greatly affected the management and care of non-COVID-19 patients, including the diabetes patients ( Bodilsen et al, 2021 ; Ojetti et al, 2020 ). Since the pandemic started, there was a significant reduction of non-COVID-19 patients, including those with diabetes, seeking consultation in the outpatient clinics and treatment due to urgent medical conditions in the emergency department ( Arcellana and Jimeno, 2020 ; Moynihan et al, 2021 ; Santi et al, 2021 ; Schofield et al, 2020 ; Sevinç et al, 2021 ). This resulted in a concurrent increase in out-of-hospital mortality mainly driven by deaths for neoplasms, cardiovascular and endocrine diseases ( Santi et al, 2021 ).…”