Journal of Diabetes Research

Research Article

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 4

Multivariate logistic regression analysis results of factors associated with hypoglycemia events among ambulatory T1DM patients attending the diabetes clinics of SPHMMC from June 01 to August 01, 2018.


Variables	Hypoglycemia ()		COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)
Variables	Yes (%)	No (%)	COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)

Sex
Male	104 (92.9)	8 (7.10)	0.60 (0.20-1.79)	0.65 (0.20-2.14)
Female	129 (95.6)	6 (4.4)	1.00	1.00
Age
5-15 years	123 (95.3)	6 (4.7)	1.23 (0.30-5.11)	1.08 (0.12-10.01)
16-30 years	60 (92.3)	5 (7.7)	0.72 (0.16-3.16)	0.79 (0.16-3.88)
>30 years	50 (94.3)	3 (5.7)	1.00	1.00
Duration of DM (year)
<1	49 (90.7)	5 (9.3)	0.16 (0.02-1.40)	0.09 (0.01-0.90)
1-5	122 (93.8)	8 (6.2)	0.25 (0.03-2.01)	0.15 (0.02-1.32)
>5	62 (98.4)	1 (1.6)	1.00	1.00
Blood glucose monitoring options
Self/family+RFU^£	147 (96.7)	5 (3.3)	3.01 (0.95-9.53)	5.77 (1.16-28.66)
HCP^¥+RFU	8 (88.8)	1 (8.3)	0.82 (0.09-7.42)	1.27 (0.13-13.02)
RFU only	78 (91.9)	8 (8.1)	1.00	1.00

Statistically significant ( value ≤ 0.05). HCP^¥: health care professional; RFU^£: regular follow-up.