Elimination of Hypoglycemia From the Lives of People Affected by Diabetes

摘要

Iatrogenic hypoglycemia is a problem for people affected by diabetes (1). It causes recurrent morbidity in most people with type 1 diabetes and many with advanced type 2 diabetes, and it is sometimes fatal. It generally precludes maintenance of euglycemia over a lifetime of diabetes and thus full realization of the vascular benefits of glycemic control. And, it compromises defenses against subsequent falling plasma glucose concentrations and therefore causes a vicious cycle of recurrent hypoglycemia.