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 3

Frequency of hypoglycemia events and their severity distribution in the last three months among ambulatory T1DM patients attending the diabetes clinics of SPHMMC from June 01 to August 01, 2018.

Total number of respondents ()
Episodes of hypoglycemia in the last 3 months	Severity			Total
	Mild^a (%)	Moderate^b (%)	Severe^c (%)
One time ()	18 (37.5)	30 (62.5)	NH	48
Two times ()	52 (61.9)	27 (32.1)	05 (6.0)	84
Three times ()	42 (51.9)	30 (37.0)	9 (11.1)	81
Four times ()	38 (45.2)	33 (39.3)	13 (15.5)	84
Five times and above ()	32 (30.2)	47 (44.3)	27 (25.5)	106
Total episodes ()	182 (45.2)	167 (41.4)	54 (13.4)	403
Event rate of hypoglycemia episodes per total respondents-year ()	3.1	2.9	0.93	6.9

NH: not happened. ^aMild hypoglycemia: an event with little or no interruption of activities and no treatment assistance needed. ^bModerate hypoglycemia: an event with some interruption of activities but no assistance needed to administer the resuscitative actions. ^cSevere hypoglycemia: an event requiring assistance of another person due to loss of consciousness (seizure and coma) to actively administer the resuscitative/corrective actions.