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SUBMITTER: Walkowiak D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8231121 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Walkowiak Dariusz D Mikołuć Bożena B Mozrzymas Renata R Kałużny Łukasz Ł Didycz Bożena B Jaglowska Joanna J Kurylak Danuta D Walkowiak Jarosław J
Nutrients 20210612 6
The present study assessed patients' metabolic control of phenylketonuria (PKU) during the first 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in Poland. Blood (phenylalanine) Phe results of the tests of 535 patients, performed in 2019 and in the first months of 2020, were analysed. The six-week lockdown period was compared to the preceding six-week period as well as to the two corresponding periods of 2019 (three non-lockdown periods). More patients failed to perform Phe tests in the lockdown period (32.7%) than in n ...[more]