An Evaluation of Methods of Assessing Impaired Awareness of Hypoglycemia in Type 1 Diabetes
Author(s) -
Ulrik PedersenBjergaard,
Thomas Høi-Hansen,
Birger Thorsteinsson
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
diabetes care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.636
H-Index - 363
eISSN - 1935-5548
pISSN - 0149-5992
DOI - 10.2337/dc07-1181
Subject(s) - medicine , hypoglycemia , diabetes mellitus , type 2 diabetes , type 1 diabetes , intensive care medicine , endocrinology
The report by Geddes et al. (1) deals with an important—and controversial—clinical issue: classification of hypoglycemia awareness.Three methods were compared: the Edinburgh method (2), the Clarke method (3), and our method (4). Geddes et al. (1) conclude that our method is too simplified and overestimates the prevalence of impaired awareness and recommend the use of the Edinburgh and/or the Clarke …
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