Hypoglycaemia in insulin-treated Type 2 diabetes: Frequency, symptoms and impaired awareness

Diabetic Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1016-1021

  Henderson, J N ^a   Allen, K V ^a   Deary, I J ^a   Frier, Brian M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hypoglycaemia; Impaired awareness of hypoglycaemia; Insulin; Symptoms of hypoglycaemia; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; ADULT; AGED; AGING; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AWARENESS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1542649645     PISSN: 07423071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1464-5491.2003.01072.x     Document Type: Article

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