Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, October 9th, 2006
Study 1: Nocturnal hypoglycemia is common in type 1 diabetes, but a bedtime snack or terbutaline were not adequate treatments.
"We assessed four putative bedtime treatments in the prevention of nocturnal hypoglycemia in type 1 diabetes. Plasma glucose concentrations were measured every 15 min from 2200 h through 0700 h in 21 patients with type 1 diabetes (mean±SD HbA1C =7.1±1.0%) on five occasions with, in random sequence, bedtime (2200 h) administration of 1) no treatment, 2) a snack, 3) the snack plus the alpha-glucosidase inhibitor acarbose,...
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