ea0038p271 | Obesity, diabetes, metabolism and cardiovascular | SFEBES2015
Naik Dukhabandhu
, Shilpa R M
, Mahesh D M
, Asha H S
, Kapoor Nitin
, Paul Thomas
, Padmanabhan V
, Inbakumari Mercy
, Christina Flory
, Rani Jansi
, Natarajan Divya
, Jeyaseelan L
, Thomas Nihal
Background: Intensive glycemic control forms the benchmark of management of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and is limited by the risk of hypoglycaemia. Repeated episodes of hypoglycaemia can lead to development of hypoglycaemia unawareness and a sixfold increase in deaths in those experiencing severe hypoglycaemia. Severe hypoglycaemia occurs in 3542% patients with T1DM. However, there is lack of data from our population and hence we aimed to objectively estimate the pr...