People with type 1 diabetes and impaired awareness of hypoglycaemia have a delayed reaction to performing a glucose scan during hypoglycaemia: a prospective observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Considering that people with type 1 diabetes and impaired awareness of hypoglycaemia (IAH) have a delayed perception of hypoglycaemia, the question arises whether they perform scans later in case of hypoglycaemia than people without IAH. We assessed whether time to performing a scan after reaching hypoglycaemia while using a flash glucose monitoring (flash GM) system is different in people with IAH compared with people without IAH.

Methods

Ninety-two people with type 1 diabetes [mean (± sd) age 42 ± 14 years, HbA_1c 57 ± 9 mmol/mol] using a flash GM system for 3 months were included. Flash GM data were assessed for time until scan after reaching hypoglycaemia level 1 (< 3.9 mmol/l) and level 2 (< 3.0 mmol/l) and compared for type 1 diabetes with vs. without IA

SUBMITTER: Moser O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7689757 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature