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Increasing trend in emergency department visits for hypoglycemia from patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Taiwan.
- Source :
- Primary Care Diabetes; Dec2015, Vol. 9 Issue 6, p490-496, 7p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- <bold>Aims: </bold>We analyze the time trends of hypoglycemia-related emergency department visits in Taiwan between 2000 and 2010, focusing on type 2 diabetic patients receiving antidiabetic agents.<bold>Methods: </bold>From a national dataset containing longitudinal medical claims of one million persons, we ascertained 4479 hypoglycemia-related emergency department visits from 3184 type 2 diabetic patients for analysis. We used negative binomial regression to calculate the incidence rate ratios (IRRs) for comparing event rates of hypoglycemia-related emergency department visits in different study periods.<bold>Results: </bold>Rates of hypoglycemia-related emergency department visits increased 4.8 folds from year 2000 to 2010 (adjusted IRR 4.88, 95% CI 3.94-6.05, P<0.001). Severe hypoglycemia requiring emergency department visits prevailed among women, older patients (≥ 65 years), and those not lived in the urban areas.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Within a 10-year period, there was a substantial increase in the rates of hypoglycemia-related emergency department visits from type 2 diabetic patients in Taiwan. Appropriate risk management plans should be developed to prevent the occurrence of severe hypoglycemia in patients with type 2 diabetes in Taiwan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- HYPOGLYCEMIA treatment
TYPE 2 diabetes diagnosis
AGE distribution
BLOOD sugar
COMPARATIVE studies
DATABASES
HOSPITAL emergency services
HYPOGLYCEMIA
HYPOGLYCEMIC agents
RESEARCH methodology
MEDICAL cooperation
TYPE 2 diabetes
RESEARCH
SEX distribution
TIME
RESIDENTIAL patterns
EVALUATION research
DISEASE incidence
DIAGNOSIS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17519918
- Volume :
- 9
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Primary Care Diabetes
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 111343318
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcd.2015.04.002