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Restoring Awareness, Reducing Severity: A strategic approach to mitigating the damage of hypoglycaemia
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Restoring Awareness, Reducing Severity: A strategic approach to mitigating the damage of hypoglycaemia

Glucose-Monitoring Technology, Impaired Awareness, Patient education, Severe hypoglycaemia

Restoring Awareness, Reducing Severity: A strategic approach to mitigating the damage of hypoglycaemia

By: Stephanie Amiel, BSc, MD, FRCP |Date: Monday 30 April 2018| Categories: Severe Hypoglycaemia, Glucose-Monitoring Technology, Patient Education, Impaired Awareness

An awareness of hunger prompts people to open the refrigerator. The same process alows people to limit the damage of hypoglycaemia: a mental awareness of symptoms gives people a chance to take corrective action.

Giving Severe Hypoglycaemia the Attention it is Due
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Giving Severe Hypoglycaemia the Attention it is Due

ADVANCE trial, Cardiovascular events, DEVOTE study, glucose levels, Hypoglycemia Assessment Tool (HAT) study, ORIGIN trial, Patient education, Severe hypoglycaemia, Type 2 diabetes

Giving Severe Hypoglycaemia the Attention it is Due

By: Yingying Luo, MD|Date: Tuesday 24 October 2017| Categories: ADVANCE trial, Cardiovascular events, DEVOTE study, glucose levels, Hypoglycemia Assessment Tool (HAT) study, ORIGIN trial, Patient education, Severe hypoglycaemia, Type 2 diabetes|

There is a line in the sand between mild and severe hypoglycaemia (SH). While mild hypoglycaemia is not trivial, it does not threaten life and health as SH does. For people who depend on insulin and other glucose-lowering drugs associated with hypoglycaemia, clinicians often consider a degree of SH “the cost of doing business” in diabetes management—in other words, an unwanted but unavoidable corollary of treatment.