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Remember patients with diabetes may experience hypoglycaemia at ' normoglycaemic levels'. 

Why?

  • Patient with diabetes experience symptoms of hypoglycaemia at higher blood glucose levels than patients without diabetes (on average 1.4 mmol/l higher) d

Expiry date: September 2003
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Authors   W   Whiteley , CM   Ball
Reviewer   M   Daniel
CAT Writers   W   Whiteley , CM   Ball