Self-treated hypoglycaemia is common in approximately one third of patients using insulin analogue regimens. Additionally, self-treated hypoglycaemia was found to be associated with clinically significant effects on patient well-being and functioning, patient and physician management and healthcare utilisation despite the potential limitations of an online self-complete survey such as the need to be topic focused, the potential for under-reporting and social bias.
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