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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
While glucose control has been improving nationally, serious hypoglycemia has not and insulin mistakes resulting in emergency care aren't rare, two studies showed.
Hyperglycemia-related hospitalizations fell 39% overall in the Medicare population from 1999 to 2011, Kasia Lipska, MD, MHS, of Yale, and colleagues reported here at the American Diabetes Association meeting.
During the same period hospitalizations for hypoglycemia rose from 94 per 100,000 patient-years to a peak of 130 per 100,000 patient-years in 2007 before declining slightly to 105 per 100,000 patient-years in the wake of the ACCORD trial data showing higher mortality with intensive therapy targeting 6.5% hemoglobin A1c.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/ADA/40084
Hyperglycemia-related hospitalizations fell 39% overall in the Medicare population from 1999 to 2011, Kasia Lipska, MD, MHS, of Yale, and colleagues reported here at the American Diabetes Association meeting.
During the same period hospitalizations for hypoglycemia rose from 94 per 100,000 patient-years to a peak of 130 per 100,000 patient-years in 2007 before declining slightly to 105 per 100,000 patient-years in the wake of the ACCORD trial data showing higher mortality with intensive therapy targeting 6.5% hemoglobin A1c.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/ADA/40084