Evaluation of Hypoglycemia and Associated Factors among Patients with Type 1 Diabetes on Follow-Up Care at St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Table 2

Clinical characteristics of ambulatory T1DM patients attending the diabetes clinics of SPHMMC from June 01 to August 01, 2018.

Variables	Frequency	Percent
Body mass index (BMI) ( ()); ( ())
Underweight	51	21.1
Healthy weight	151	61.5
Overweight	43	17.0
Obese	1	0.4
Duration of diabetes since diagnosis ( ())
<1 year	54	21.9
1-5 years	130	52.6
>5 years	63	25.5
Types of insulin taken
Regular insulin	4	1.6
NPH	75	30.4
Both (mix tared)	168	68.0

BMI for respondents of years was done based on the WHO BMI category as percentile adjustment. BMI for respondents of years was taken the average three measurement from the medical records.