Night-time hypoglycemia licked?

Is this you? Difficult to wake up, is often drenched with night sweat, wakes up with a headache or wakes up tired despite a full night’s sleep?

If you answered yes, then you may belong to 85 percent of Filipino diabetes patients who do not reach optimal control of their diabetes, particularly hypoglycemic events or low blood sugar at night.

According to medical experts, night-time low blood sugar or nocturnal hypoglycemia affects nearly half of adults with type 1 diabetes and one in three people with type 2 diabetes.

Nocturnal hypoglycemia is unpredictable and difficult to detect, according to a report by the Philippine Star, citing research that hypoglycemia can interfere with achieving optimal glycemic control among people with diabetes using insulin.

In the hope of addressing these barriers for patients, Novo Nordisk has developed a novel basal insulin with proven efficacy and a lower risk of nocturnal hypoglycemia.

The once-daily basal insulin for people with diabetes successfully achieves reduction in blood glucose levels with a lower risk of nocturnal hypoglycemia. –End-

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