Table 1.
Characteristics of patients and a summary of survey responses.
Total number of patients invited to enroll in the study, N | 572 |
Total number of patients who completed survey, N (survey response rate) | 525 (91.8%) |
Final analytic sample, excluding patients with no fasting labs (127) and patients with incomplete data (35) | 363 |
Mean age (SD), years | 60.6 (12.5) |
Mean diabetes duration (SD), years | 16.0 (11.5) |
Sex, female | 194 (53.2%) |
Patients reporting type 2 diabetes mellitus, N (%) | 298 (81.6%) |
Patients on hypoglycemia-inducing OHAs∗ (without insulin) | 36 |
Patients on insulin without hypoglycemia-inducing OHAs | 215 |
Patients on both insulin and hypoglycemia-inducing OHAs | 18 |
Total at-risk patients for FEEHD∗∗ | 269 (74.1%) |
Total patients with FEEHD∗∗∗ | 62 (17.1%) |
Patients with FEEHD from “at-risk” patient group (prevalence) | 59 (21.9%)∗∗∗∗ |
Multiple FEEHD episode patients | 7 |
Patients educated by health care prior to fasting labs | 131 (35.9%) |
FEEHD = fasting-evoked en route hypoglycemia in diabetes; SD = standard deviation; OHA = oral hypoglycemic agent. ∗Sulfonylureas and meglitinide analogues. ∗∗At-risk patients: patients who had fasting labs done and were on insulin or hypoglycemia-inducing OHAs or both. ∗∗∗FEEHD: fasting-evoked en route hypoglycemia in diabetes. ∗∗∗∗3 patients who had FEEHD were not on any hypoglycemia-inducing OHA or insulin. They were on metformin, saxagliptin, liraglutide, or canagliflozin.