Table 5.

Health resource use and productivity loss due to hypoglycemia (n = 281)

	T1DM (n = 131)	T2DM (n = 150)
Monthly health resource use
Hospitalization,  %	5.3	2.7
Mean duration (days)	4	4
Emergency visits,  %	3.1	4.7
Mean number of emergency visits	3	2
Physician/nurse visits,  %	0.8	2.7
Mean number of visits	3	3
Use of glucagon,  %	19.8	12
Work productivity loss
Patients with lost working days,  %	3.2	0.7
Mean number of lost working days	3.0	2.4
Yearly cost per patient (R$)	709	396
Yearly cost per component,  %
Hospitalization	63.8	65.2
Emergency visits	3.8	7.3
Physician/nurse visits	0.6	0.8
Use of glucagon	22.0	25.3
Productivity loss	9.7	1.5

SD standard-deviation