To 77% of people with diabetes hypoglycemia condition their life and 76% suffer one every week.
In addition, 23 percent of respondents recognize that in the last year a serious hypoglycemia has suffered a type of hypoglycemia that, according to the National Institute of American Diabetes, can cause seizures, coma and, even, death.
This follows from a survey carried out through 'Diabetes Channel' to 400 people and announced during an organized debate together with Sanofi during the Spanish Diabetes Society Congress (SED).
"This debate, the first one that takes place in Spain of these characteristics, we have organized as a result of the results obtained in the survey and that highlights the great concern today with hypoglycemia.
We believe that it is essential that this issue is treated together by patients and health professionals since the joint vision is the one that can allow us to reach better results, "said the 'Diabetes' expert, Ángel Ramírez.
For health professionals, both doctors and nursing staff and educators, the objective of reaching good control in diabetes management is "primary", for which it is necessary to monitor "very personalized" of patients to adapt toEach person the proper treatment.
"When a person with diabetes needs insulin to counteract the fact that their own body does not produce it, it is important to succeed in the fair dose of insulin that should be injected. Fortunately there are new basal insulins that are already available for patients and that are a lotsafer since they reduce the risk of hypoglycemia, "said Endocrine of the General Hospital of Segovia.