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Thread: Death from Hypoglycemia

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03-24-2008, 03:39 PM

BlueSky

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I am a: Type 1

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Location: Auckland, New Zealand

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The consensus seems to be that hypoglycemia may have something to do with the "dead-in-bed syndrome", but it is not the underlying cause. They have no idea what causes it. There was a big hoo-haa about this a while back, with speculation that dead-in-bed was somehow caused by the switch to intensive therapy (MDI) and the use of modern insulins. But that seems to have died down, and I have not been able to find any new data about it ...