PseudoBob77
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
From what i've read up, it's not so much the variability with hypers, it's the post prandial duration of it remaining high for prolonged periods after eating, that's where the damage occurs. This coupled with bad chloresterol and high blood pressure increases micro and macro vascular complications.@catapillar I think this graph is a good visual representation:
Relative risk is the risk compared to a normal person getting the listed complications, so at hba1c of 6 you have (apparently) the same level of risk of all complications as a non-diabetic.
Now what I'd really like to see is something visual that shows glycaemic variability versus relative risk of complications.