Prolonged nocturnal hypoglycemia is common during 12 months of continuous glucose monitoring in children and adults with type 1 diabetes - PubMed (original) (raw)

Randomized Controlled Trial

doi: 10.2337/dc09-2081. Epub 2010 Mar 3.

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Randomized Controlled Trial

Prolonged nocturnal hypoglycemia is common during 12 months of continuous glucose monitoring in children and adults with type 1 diabetes

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Continuous Glucose Monitoring Study Group. Diabetes Care. 2010 May.

Abstract

Objective: To characterize the amount of nocturnal hypoglycemia and evaluate factors associated with nocturnal hypoglycemia assessed with continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) in adults and children with type 1 diabetes who participated in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation CGM randomized clinical trial.

Research design and methods: The analysis included 36,467 nights with >or=4 h of CGM glucose readings between 12 midnight and 6:00 a.m. from 176 subjects assigned to the CGM group of the trial. The percentage of nights in which hypoglycemia occurred (two consecutive CGM readings <or=60 mg/dl in 20 min) was computed for each subject. Associations with baseline characteristics and clinical factors were evaluated using a multivariate regression model.

Results: Hypoglycemic events occurred during 8.5% of nights, with the median percentage of nights with hypoglycemia per subject being 7.4% (interquartile range 3.7-12.1%). The duration of hypoglycemia was >or=2 h on 23% of nights with hypoglycemia. In a multivariate model, a higher incidence of nocturnal hypoglycemia was associated with 1) lower baseline A1C levels (P < 0.001) and 2) the occurrence of hypoglycemia on one or more nights during baseline blinded CGM (P < 0.001). The hypoglycemia frequency was not associated with age or with insulin modality (pump versus multiple daily injections).

Conclusions: Nocturnal hypoglycemia is frequent and often prolonged in adults and children with type 1 diabetes. Patients with low A1C levels are at an increased risk for its occurrence. One week of blinded CGM can identify patients who are at greater risk for nocturnal hypoglycemia.

Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00406133.

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Duration of hypoglycemia (≤60 mg/dl) vs. age. For presentation purposes, the hypoglycemic nights ordered by age were divided into 20 groups with an approximately equal number of nights per group. The average duration was then plotted against the average age for each group. The regression line, however, is based on all the data points, not the 20 groups.

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