Study on the effects of Hyperglycaemia on driving

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I guess that it’s hard to say above a definitive number people will feel a certain way or get particular symptoms as someone who lives with higher levels generally may need to be a lot higher to feel negative effects than someone who is generally within target levels. I’m not sure what usual control was like among the participants of this study.

I remember discussing with a colleague with T1 who would never drive if above a certain point (can’t remember what their cut off was) as they knew their concentration would be effected and although technically they wouldn‘t be breaking any specific written rules around it, drivers do of course have a responsibility not to get behind the wheel if it isn’t safe to do so, whether that’s due to medical condition or tiredness or whatever.

Interesting though.
 
Yeah and always far too many Type 1s who are absolutely positive that either being high or low doesn't affect their brain ..... I always say feel free to kill yourself then and remove yourself from the gene pool to make my world a safer place!
 
High BG certainly makes me feel drowsy after a certain point.

But the rules around low BG (and particularly the 40 minute wait if 3.9 for a minute or two) do make me cautious of being anywhere near 5.5-6.5 so I generally aim to be higher range 8s-9s if driving a longer journey.
 
I thought AH was a bg > 200 (11 in real money) so testing people between 138 and 321 (7.7 to 17) is far too broad a range.
 
Well being as they were tying to see if the higher it got the worse it affected their judgment, which they reckoned it did, it isn't too broad a range. Such a tiny number of T1s though, we shouldn't draw too many conclusions from it IMHO. Plus no definition given of the adjective 'young' either - were they actually old enough to hold a driving licence in the first place?
 
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