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<blockquote data-quote="R T Donkin" data-source="post: 2612088" data-attributes="member: 573595"><p>HI Roppa,</p><p></p><p>I did some research on this and found many reports from mainly Canadian and American Universities which I could send to you if I knew how to attach a list to this note.</p><p></p><p>In summary these reports gave mixed views as to the long-term impact of hypos but the overall picture is that minor hypos (<3.8 mmol/l say) have no adverse effects upon the brain, irrespective of how many you have. However if you have more than 2 serious hypos/yr (requiring third party assistance to recover) it is possible that there will be some adverse effects. As you can see there is little definitive agreement and the reason is of course that there is very little hard data available over the long term. I have no records of my hypos, mild or severe, over the last 50 years or so and I imagine that few diabetics will have kept such data!</p><p></p><p>I became a T1 diabetic during my finals at Cambridge some 52 years ago, and I decided many years ago that the consequences of minor hypos are preferable to the problems caused by poor blood sugar control. My Hba1c is consistently less than 6% and clinicians no longer tell me that hypos cause brain damage. I think that this is a hangover from when they attended medial school many years ago - if indeed they did.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="R T Donkin, post: 2612088, member: 573595"] HI Roppa, I did some research on this and found many reports from mainly Canadian and American Universities which I could send to you if I knew how to attach a list to this note. In summary these reports gave mixed views as to the long-term impact of hypos but the overall picture is that minor hypos (<3.8 mmol/l say) have no adverse effects upon the brain, irrespective of how many you have. However if you have more than 2 serious hypos/yr (requiring third party assistance to recover) it is possible that there will be some adverse effects. As you can see there is little definitive agreement and the reason is of course that there is very little hard data available over the long term. I have no records of my hypos, mild or severe, over the last 50 years or so and I imagine that few diabetics will have kept such data! I became a T1 diabetic during my finals at Cambridge some 52 years ago, and I decided many years ago that the consequences of minor hypos are preferable to the problems caused by poor blood sugar control. My Hba1c is consistently less than 6% and clinicians no longer tell me that hypos cause brain damage. I think that this is a hangover from when they attended medial school many years ago - if indeed they did. [/QUOTE]
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