Journal
JOURNAL OF DIABETES AND ITS COMPLICATIONS
Volume 35, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2021.107916
Keywords
Hypoglycemia; Economic burden; Type 1 diabetes; Type 2 diabetes; Severe hypoglycemia; Non-severe hypoglycemia; Healthcare utilization
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- Abbott Diabetes Care
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The economic and psychological consequences of diabetes-related hypoglycemic events are shared across various parties, including patients, their families, payors, and employers. Measures to mitigate hypoglycemia are essential to ease the economic burden, with interventions such as medication management, optimal glucose control, lifestyle modifications, and frequent glucose monitoring being recommended for prevention.
The economic and psychological consequences of diabetes-related hypoglycemic events are multifold and shared across various parties, including patients and their family or caregivers, payors, and employers. Hypoglycemic events contribute to increased morbidity, mortality, and a substantial portion of diabetes economic burden. Both severe and non-severe hypoglycemic episodes contribute to economic and psychological burden, and can have short-term consequences, such as emergency services, hospitalization, clinic visits, and increased use of di-abetes supplies. Severe hypoglycemic events also generate additional follow-up costs, and are likely to occur again. Left untreated, hypoglycemia can have long-term consequences including, death, cardiovascular events, and cognitive issues. Costs vary geographically based on the treatment protocols which focus on outpatient treat-ment versus increased in-patient hospitalization. Certain types of medications are also associated with increased hypoglycemia, which requires closer monitoring of the patient, such as with basal insulin initiation. Some indi-viduals with diabetes may be more vulnerable to hypoglycemia, such as the elderly, postoperative bariatric pa-tients, and adolescent females. Measures to mitigate hypoglycemia are essential to ease the economic burden of these events. Medication management, optimal glucose control, lifestyle modifications and frequent glucose monitoring are some interventions which may help prevent hypoglycemia. (c) 2021 Published by Elsevier Inc.
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