Program may help diabetics head off low blood sugar

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) A six week behavior modification program helped people with diabetes overcome uk canada goose anxieties and prevent plunging blood sugar in a small UK study.

A patient takes a blood glucose test during an event aimed to help people with diabetes to cope with their illness at Saint Luka diagnostics medical center in Sofia, November 13, 2012. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

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Signs of low blood sugar include shaking, confusion, sweating and blurred vision, Andrew Keen, a health psychologist specializing in diabetes at the University of Aberdeen, told Reuters Health.

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The program Amiel team devised included instruction on signs of hypoglycemia and how to reduce hypoglycemia risk. Program leaders also focused on helping participants identify their own canada goose black friday sale emotional and motivational barriers to recognizing low blood sugar episodes.

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Amiel and her colleagues followed the patients for a year after the end canada goose uk outlet of the program.

Among the 23 participants who completed the program, 14 reported having passed out in the year before the study began as a result of low blood sugar episodes, three said they been taken to an emergency room (one individual, 24 times) and three had been admitted to the hospital, Amiel team reports in the Canada Goose Online journal Diabetes Care.

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The average number of episodes of moderate hypoglycemia, meaning patients were able to treat the episode themselves, fell from 14 to zero per six week period.

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