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The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the incidence of diseases and the provision of primary care: A registry-based study.

Steve Alfons Van den BulckJonas CrèvecoeurBert AertgeertsNicolas DelvauxThomas NeyensGijs Van PottelberghPatrick CoursierBert Vaes
Published in: PloS one (2022)
This paper strengthened the claim that Covid-19 should be considered as a syndemic instead of a pandemic. During the first Covid-19 year, overall care provision and the incidence of acute diagnoses increased, whereas chronic diseases' incidence decreased, except for obesity diagnoses which increased. More granular, care provision and chronic diseases' incidence decreased during the lockdowns, especially for people with a lower socio-economic status. After the lockdowns they both returned to baseline.
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