News tagged with hypoglycemic episodes


Depression raises diabetics' risk of severe low blood sugar episodes

(Medical Xpress)—Patients with diabetes who are depressed are much more likely to develop episodes of dangerously low blood sugars, or hypoglycemia, than are those who are not depressed, a new study has ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 24, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Social networking approach to public health research raises hypoglycemia awareness

Hypoglycemia may be a much larger problem among patients with diabetes than is currently realized, according to a study of members of a diabetes-focused social network conducted by researchers in Boston Children's Hospital's ...

Diabetes created Feb 11, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Risk of comorbidities up with hypoglycemia in T2DM

(HealthDay)—For patients with type 2 diabetes, hypoglycemia, regardless of its severity, correlates with a significantly increased risk of cardiovascular events, all-cause hospitalization, and mortality, ...

Diabetes created Apr 08, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dapagliflozin aids glycemic control in type 2 diabetes

(HealthDay) -- For patients with inadequately controlled type 2 diabetes, treatment with dapagliflozin is associated with improved glycemic control, stabilized insulin dosing, and weight reductions, according ...

Diabetes created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Alternative fuel for your brain

Tight control of blood glucose levels is critical to mitigating the long-term complications of diabetes; however, the intensive insulin therapy required for this control is frequently accompanied by recurrent episodes of ...

Medical research created Apr 01, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Safer and more effective diabetes control with basal insulin analogs

Basal insulin analogs have revolutionized diabetes care, and especially the treatment of type 2 diabetes, enabling patients to achieve better control of blood glucose levels while reducing hypoglycemic episodes. ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0