Editorial

Diabetic hypoglycemia and pregnancy

Professor Simon Heller of the Editorial Board

Diabetic Hypoglycemia January 2011, Volume 3, Issue 3: page 1-2

Despite overwhelming evidence that tight metabolic control can prevent diabetic complications, only a few individuals with type 1 diabetes sustain blood glucose levels close to normal or even achieve glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels in the recommended range. For many, the demands of modern insulin therapy lead them to maintain glycemic control at higher levels than their professional carers would wish. The one notable exception to this situation is during pregnancy, when most women strive f

Feature Article

Hypoglycemia in pregnant women with type 1 diabetes: clinical features and management

Lene Ringholm, MD, PhD; Ulrik Pedersen-Bjergaard, MD, DMSc; Birger Thorsteinsson, MD, DMSc; Peter Damm, MD, DMSc; Elisabeth R. Mathiesen, MD, DMSc

Diabetic Hypoglycemia January 2011, Volume 3, Issue 3: page 3-7

In women with type 1 diabetes, severe hypoglycemia occurs three to five times more frequently in early pregnancy compared with the period prior to pregnancy, whereas in the third trimester, the incidence is lower than in the year preceding pregnancy.

Congress Reporter

Congress Reporter - effects of modafinil on cognitive function, symptomatic and hormonal responses to hypoglycemia, potential use of electroencephalograms to warn of nocturnal hypoglycemia, and hypoglycemia and exercise and quality of life

Nicole Meinel of the Diabetic Hypoglycemia Editorial Team

Diabetic Hypoglycemia January 2011, Volume 3, Issue 3: page 8-11

Highlights from the 46th European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) Annual Meeting are summarized in this edition of Diabetic Hypoglycemia.
 

Research Round Up

Research Round Up - hypoglycemia and vascular disease, and severe hypoglycemia and cognition and driving mishaps

Nicole Meinel of the Diabetic Hypoglycemia Editorial Team

Diabetic Hypoglycemia January 2011, Volume 3, Issue 3: page 12-16

This research round up covers new publications in the field of diabetic hypoglycemia including: hypoglycemia and vascular disease in type 1 and type 2 diabetes and the relations between severe hypoglycemia and cognition, and between severe
hypoglycemia and driving mishaps.

Clinical Case Study

Hypoglycemia-induced seizures following physical exercise in a man with type 1 diabetes and latent epilepsy

Dr Marit R Bjorgaas

Diabetic Hypoglycemia January 2011, Volume 3, Issue 3: page 17-18

A 42 year old solicitor suffered episodes of loss of consciousness in his late twenties before type 1 diabetes was diagnosed at the age of 32.

In Profile

In Profile - Simon Heller, BA MB BChir DM FRCP

Nicole Meinel of the Diabetic Hypoglycemia Editorial Team

Diabetic Hypoglycemia January 2011, Volume 3, Issue 3: page 19-20

In this issue of Diabetic Hypoglycemia, we interview Professor Simon Heller, Professor of Clinical Diabetes at the University of Sheffield, UK, and Director of Research and Development and Honorary Consultant Physician at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust.
 

Diabetes Treatment Review

Applications of continuous glucose monitoring and insulin pump therapy in the prevention of diabetic hypoglycemia

Nicole Meinel of the Diabetic Hypoglycemia Editorial Team

Diabetic Hypoglycemia January 2011, Volume 3, Issue 3: page 21-25

This Treatment Review presents recently published data on the effectiveness of continuous glucose monitors (CGM) and on sensor-augmented insulin-pump therapy in type 1 diabetes patients. The data suggest CGM may prove a useful tool in
detecting delayed increases or decreases in glucose levels during night-time sleep after an exercise program.

Webwatch

Webwatch - the diabetes pages of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website

Nicole Meinel of the Diabetic Hypoglycemia Editorial Team

Diabetic Hypoglycemia January 2011, Volume 3, Issue 3: page 26

In each issue of Diabetic Hypoglycemia we review a website that contains information on diabetes. In this issue we review the diabetes pages of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website (http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/).