Prospective and retrospective recording of severe hypoglycaemia, and assessment of hypoglycaemia awareness in insulin-treated Type 2 diabetes: Letter: Original Observation

Diabetic Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1306-1308

  Akram, K ^a   Pedersen Bjergaard, U ^b   Carstensen, B ^a   Borch Johnsen, K ^a   Thorsteinsson, B ^b  

^a STENO DIABETES CENTER   (Denmark)

^b HILLERØD HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

AWARENESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN TREATMENT; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INCIDENCE; INSULIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 70549097341     PISSN: 07423071     EISSN: 14645491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2009.02834.x     Document Type: Letter

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