Frequency and Predictors of Self-Reported Hypoglycemia in Insulin-Treated Diabetes

Table 4

Multivariate regression analysis using hypoglycemic episodes and severe hypoglycemic episodes as dependent variables and variables that achieved significance on univariate analysis as independent variables.

Variables significant on univariate analysis	Type 1 diabetes		Type 2 diabetes
	Hypoglycemia (beta; value)	Severe hypoglycemia (beta; value)	Hypoglycemia (beta; value)	Severe hypoglycemia (beta; value)
Age	−0.25; 0.28	−0.09; 0.23	−0.26; 0.032	−0.01; 0.84
BMI	1.27; 0.14	0.11; 0.71	−0.27; 0.10	−0.03; 0.41
Duration of diabetes	0.46; 0.042	0.16; 0.037	0.18; 0.11	−0.01; 0.65
Total insulin dose	0.24; 0.11	0.02; 0.72	0.01; 0.74	0.002; 0.79
Number of daily injections	1.95; 0.76	—	−0.89; 0.44	0.05; 0.84
SD around mean BG	0.43; 0.022	0.15; 0.023	0.07; 0.22	0.01; 0.50
HbA1c	−9.69; 0.010	−3.19; 0.015	—	−0.09; 0.71
Depression	—	—	−1.63; 0.61	—